[101651] in RedHat Linux List
Re: lockups during backups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Doris)
Sat Nov 28 01:16:56 1998
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:19:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerry Doris <gdoris@shaw.wave.ca>
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I've got 3 disk drives, 2 cdroms, and the same tape drive. I've never had the
problem. I suspect it's hardware related...maybe cables???
Gerry
<snip>
> This really shouldn't be happening, but I have heard of some of these
> lockups with both disk drives and tape drives, scanners on the same
> scsi buss but never heard of any solutions.
>
> The first thing I thought of is that you ran out of tape, but that
> shouldn't lock your machine.
>
> Since it is rare this will be hard to trouble shoot, but how about
> trying to test with something like dump or tar from an xterm using
> strace to see what is doing when it locks up.
>
> I have a similiar dat and have never had that problem and I have
> two disks and the dat on the same scsi buss.
>
> --
> Ray Curtis Consultant/Programmer Curtis Consulting
> mailto:ray@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
> ============================================================================
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E-Mail: Gerry Doris <gdoris@shaw.wave.ca>
Date: 28-Nov-98
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