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From: dennis@nebulus.ampr.org (Dennis S. Breckenridge)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Backup problems on 6386 systems
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.173800.3216@nebulus.ampr.org>
Date: 15 Nov 90 17:38:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.195548.17967@DMI.USherb.CA> <1990Nov14.050626.22929@banzai.PCC.COM>
Organization: Alchemy Mindworks, Vancouver, Canada
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john@banzai.PCC.COM (John Canning) writes:

>In article <1990Nov13.195548.17967@DMI.USherb.CA> beauchem@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Denis Beauchemin) writes:
>>We are plaged by a "I/O Error on write(), errno 5, I/O Error" message almost
>>every time we use our 120 MB tape drives (we have 3 on different 6386 systems).
>We have found that once you get an I/O error #5, you must either
>reboot the system, or issue the command tapectl -r.  Both actions
>appear to reset the tape drive, which seems like a necessary step.

 This is not the only thing they are "quiet" about. As far as I understand
they have upgraded the Driver source to eliminate the hanging and Beta tested
a new rom for the controller. I don't know if they ever released the rom
but as far as I understand the new driver is version 2.1. I use both fixes
here and I still hang during a backup but not near as often. 

 I suspect both fixes are acurate! 


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