Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:24:08 -0500 From: moto@CS.cmu.edu To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Message-ID: <17745.795738248@GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:21:26 -0600. <199503201521.AA11221@plains.NoDak.edu>
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Hi,
>>>>> " " == Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> writes:
>> If I try to backup something to the DAT, mainly from the scsi disk,
>> the system panics randomly after a few megabytes (it lasts much
>> longer when data comes from the IDEs disks but it also panics..)
> I am not sure this will help you, but I have a Adaptec 1542 and a
> Sony DAT. FreeBSD 2.x is a lot more picky about DAT use than
> FreeBSD 1.x, namely it does not like extremely large
> blocksizes. The problems I had were in reading a tape with dd or
> restore that was created with large blocksizes causes the system to
> panic. tar is a little more stable. try:
> /sbin/dump 0usdf 3940 61000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rsd0a
I have a similar symptom with Exabyte 8205. Is there any way on
FreeBSD 2.0 to restore from a tape created by 'dump 0uBf 2033646
/dev/rst0 /dev/sd0a' on FreeBSD 1.x? My 1.7G hard drive crashed and I
deseprately need to restore it. Thanks!
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