Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:48:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | ide-tape saga (renamed) |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> It's a SMP problem. I just ran a full successful backup with the same > system booted into the same kernel compiled for UP operation. No > problem, it all works.
My problem was somewhat skewed by the fact I was using a bad tape! I really need to get a new tape and test again under DOS before doing anything else, that way I can confirm that the tape isn't the problem, and then attempt to reproduce the problems under both UP & SMP operations.
I've posted an report to the l-k mailing list about some IDE timeout problems with my older tape (stills reads/verifies ok, but I'm relucant to overwrite it). Towards the end of the verification process on the 1.4GB archive it progressively got slower and slower.. and there was quite a bunch of ide-tape errors being logged (DSC timeouts etc), in the end I gave up and halted it - but it did report that there was ZERO read errors so I assume the tape drive and the old tape I was using is still good.
You might be right that this could be a SMP problem though, but I need to confirm that in fact that this is the same problem we're both seeing wrt. ide-tape.
PS: I'm now convinced that the IDE cabling and IDE tape drive are all in 100% working order though, so that's narrowed it down some.
Cheers, Alex.
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