I have a freebsd 4.x machine running simple file and print services. It has a scsi tape drive installed -- externally. It is attached to an adaptec 2940uw. The internal 3 hard drives are attached to an adaptec 29160.
Last friday, the whole system locked up with an ugly error message about scb's and scsi buffers .. lots of garbage. I was afraid I had lost a hard drive. So I started removing the drives and testing each one individually. They all were perfect. So I removed the tape from the tape drive, and booted the system. Boot normally.. all is well. I put a new tape in the drive, run a tar job to it okay. Run a dump of all file systems, ok. Now I wondering, could a bad tape cause the whole system to lock up? That seems really BAD to have a single cassette tape bring a whole system down. Anyone else seen this? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
