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From: twinsun!eggert@uunet.uu.net (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: Server Crashes with remote tape use in SunOS 4.1.1
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:20:20 GMT
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dodgson@cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) writes that his remote SunOS 4.1.1
tapehosts crashed.  We had a similar problem with remote dumping with a
4.1.1 Sun-3/60 8mm tapehost.  At first the kernel paniced with a ``psig
action'' message.  Sun sent us a patch for bugid 1032534, but the dumps
still fail with the following message:

	st1:  tape synchronization lost
	psig: "rmt" signal 14 was masked, put back.

Sun knows about this problem, but doesn't have a fix yet.  As a stopgap we
moved our tape drive to a 4.1.1 Sparcstation 1+, and we are crossing our
fingers.