hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) (04/30/89)
We have four 3B2/400s. Our newest, and most heavily loaded unit has been crashing a bit more often than I care for. It seems as if integral hard disk #1, which contains the /usr and /usr3 file systems, is becoming not ready. Shells continue to run, but logins are not possible. Any attempt to access /usr or /usr3 files hangs the process, for example, df shows / and /usr2, which are on integral HD#0, but hangs after that. Our devices: 3B2/400 4MB. Two 72 Meg HDs (internal) SCSI 60Meg cart. tape SCSI host adapter, controller, 1 external SCSI HD. EPORTS 3BNET Interestingly, our older, non-SCSI 3B2s, identical in all other respects, have never had this crash. At any rate, my *REAL* question is this: I know how to take a crash dump to floppies, but at 4MBytes main store, this would take 15-45 minutes, which is prohibitive. Is there a way to make a crash dump partition on one of the HDs, and then take the dump on that? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Jeff Hakner Cooper Union Computer Center hak@meagan.cooper.edu hak%meagan.cooper.edu@CMCL2.NYU.EDU