problems with cpio
Monty BSD
monty%tartarus at gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Thu Dec 1 19:59:39 AEST 1988
we've been having a problem with cpio and our tape drive. when we run
cpio with the -B option (5120 blocksize), we get the messages:
vmunix: xt0: lost interrupt
vmunix: xt0: bad command synchronization
and cpio aborts. its takes a while for these messages to appear; cpio
starts out working fine, but eventually bombs. the problem only occurs
with the -B option. sun came to look at the problem and, before we had
isolated the -B option as the cause, thought that it was a bad controller,
but replacing it didn't solve the problem. has anyone seen this problem
before ? is it a bug in cpio ? we're running sunOS 4.0 on a 4/280S with
a fujitsu GCR 9 track drive on a Xylogics 472 controller.
thanks in advance,
monty
univ of chicago/biological sciences division
internet: monty at tartarus.uchicago.edu
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