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From: uskmg@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Guyton {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: backup to the floppies
Summary: Dump to floppy produces disk write error consistently
Keywords: floppy backup dump disk error
Message-ID: <6855@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 05:21:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Emory University Academic Computing
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While trying to do an incremental dump to HD floppies with the command...

     # dump 5uOf 1.22 /dev/rfd0a /dev/rsd0a

...I consistently received the following error on the second disk...

DUMP: DISK write error 1472 disk blocks into disk 2.

I reformatted disks, tried three different disks, and even tried the
dump by using the disk that had been working as #1 as the #2 disk.
The other disk that had been failing worked fine as #1 and the disk
that *had* been working as #1 failed as all of the others.  The bottom
line is that the error seemed to be independant of the disk that was
used.

Before this I had successfully done the same kind of dump to three
floppies.  I finally dumped to an OD (on another machine across the
net) and have not tried a floppy dump since then so I don't know
whether this is something peculiar to this particular dump.

Does anyone have any ideas or clues?

Thank you.




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