kerry@teb.larc.nasa.gov (Kerry Gough) (09/22/89)
In v8i110, Eduardo Krell says that he has had little or no problem with APUNIX's "mdump" and other utilities, and that the drive works for him very well. I'm glad he has had such good luck, but my experience has been quite different. I won't bore you with a long, tedious story which no one will read anyway, but suffice it to say that after about 5 months of hassles, we have only been able to run two full dumps -- and we are having nothing but trouble trying to reload the files!! (they were dumped using "mdump".) Our configuration is a 3/160 running 3.5 serving five 3/50 clients with approx. 540Mb of disk space. We have the Exabyte connected to a Ciprico controller board, and we have even received an extra drive, an extra Ciprico board, and an extra SCSI cable to go between them so that we can swap out one or more pieces of the system to see if we have a bad piece of hardware!! So far, no matter what we try, when I try to restore a certain file using "settape" and "restore ivf /dev/rxb0", the drive runs for a while and then just stops. After about 15 minutes, the restore process finally bombs with the error (don't remember exact words here):"SCSI timeout: error skipping inode XXXXX", where XXXXX is always a different inode number. I also get a console message saying: "xb0: SCSI select timeout cs=c0<CC,ERR> ss=0x0 (good status) ds=0 (no error)" This happens with either drive, regardless of the system load. Has anybody else had this problem? If so, what did you do about it? Kerry M. Gough NASA-Langley Research Center Mail Stop 149 Hampton VA 23665-5225 (804)864-2496 kerry@teb.larc.nasa.gov goof@uxv.larc.nasa.gov
ekrell@hector.att.com (09/24/89)
I must add that I'm running 4.0.3 and that when we got the APUNIX drive,
we were running 4.0.1. I never had the drive running with 3.x .
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.commark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) (09/29/89)
ekrell@hector.att.com wrote: } X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 133, message 1 of 9 } } I must add that I'm running 4.0.3 and that when we got the APUNIX drive, } we were running 4.0.1. I never had the drive running with 3.x . We also had no luck running our exabyte under 3.5 (plain vanilla drive, no 3rd party driver) but have had wonderful, reliable success since upgrading to 4.0.3. mark@DRD.Com (918) 743-3013 Jer. 9:23,24 {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark