On 1 Jul 2002, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 14:51, Edwin Fung wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a 1.6 GHz Pentium with an Adaptec 2930 SCSI card, and we connect it
> > to an external Sony SDT 9000 4-mm tape drive. We have no problems with
> > doing "tar" or "dump" when we were running Red Hat 7.0, but when we upgrade
> > to Red Hat 7.1, we keep getting errors. Red Hat 7.1 does recognize the tape
> > drive, and when we use "tar" to copy files to the tape it actually does
> > some of the files in the beginning, but before too long (within 15 secs)
> > "tar" will quit. The following is a sample of the "tar" failures:
> >
> --snip--
> >
> > From /var/log/messages, we got these:
> >
> >[...]
>
> [...]
> >
> > As I mentioned, the tape drive works fine with Red Hat 7.0, but not Red Hat
> > 7.1. Any
> > suggestions/explanations will be much appreciated.
>
> Are you still able to run 7.0? Can you check your logs while doing a
> similar operation as the one that fails under 7.1? I believe there are
> two flavors of the Adaptec SCSI driver. Are you using the same one in
> 7.1 that you were in 7.0?
IIRC, there were some very serious problems with certain Adaptec
controllers and the original RHL 7.1 release. Check the updates, and see
if there are not newer boot images, kernels, etc.. Or move on to
something more recent. I don't recall hearing about problems in 7.2 or
7.3. (Although we are having a problem with the latest 7.2 errata kernel
and multiple SCSI controllers. Haven't had a chance to tear the machien
apart and see if I can find what combinations of things trigger the
problem. Another machine with only one Adaptec controller is working
fine.).
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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