Messages in this thread | | | From | "William M. Perkins" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI errors while playing music and doing a tape backup | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2000 19:49:11 -0500 (EST) |
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Stephen Landamore writes.... > > William M. Perkins wrote: > << Stuff deleted >> > > I suspect libsvga is doing some bad magic (though why on earth it > would mess with my SCSI subsystem is quite beyond me). I think I need > to configure libsvga, but I'm not sure how (/etc/vgalib?) or else I > need to recompile libsvga with some debug info enabled... > > Does your dump program use libsvga? > No, it only requires stdin/stdout to display output/accept input.
> For the record I also have similar hardware: a diamond fireport 40 > scsi controller (ncr53c875 based) and a yamaha crw6416s cdrom drive. > The Yamaha is quite a new addition... > Both of the SCSI controllers I am using are from Diamond and use ncr53c875 chips. I have never had trouble with either of them in the past.
> If I figure it out, I'll let you know, but of course if anyone can > say 'ah ha! it's XYZ' then that would save me a lot of work :-) > I am re-testing the situation. I have rebooted the system and am now playing a copy of Jean-Luc Ponty's "A Taste For Passion" from CD while doing a dump backup/verify to tape. No errors so far. The CD I was playing before was "Abba Gold Greatest Hits" when I received the SCSI errors. Maybe my system does not like Abba for some reason. :-)
> regards, > stephen > Cheers!
Bill
-- William M. Perkins E-mail - wmp@grnwood.net The Greenwood UNIX Systems Administration Reston, Virginia (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)
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