On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:13, Tom Yates wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out
> > driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which
> > tend to be rather "simple" minded. They either simply write() or read().
> > Bacula uses quite a lot more features of the drive.
>
> just in case anyone tracks down my original mail to the list, and wonders
> how i resolved it, i should point out i've fixed it.
>
> it seems that it was hardware. basically, something on my old system was
> going south. i suspect it was the processor, as it was so hard to track
> down, but i shotgunned the entire system (except for the HDD, which i had
> no reason to suspect, the PSU, which had only just been replaced in an
> earlier attempt to solve the problem, and the SCSI card, which i can't
> afford to replace and which i have some confidence in) and put in new
> motherboard, memory, processor, fan, video card and case.
>
> the new system came up and immediately started running bacula just fine.
>
> enormous thanks to kern for responding quickly, informatively and
> personally.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to see that your problem is resolved.
I guess that the next time I respond, I should not only mention the fact that
Bacula tends to expose a lot of driver bugs AND hardware problems, both of
which are difficult and time consuming to debug ...
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Best regards,
Kern
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