Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: uport drive bug?
Message-ID: <505@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 14:44:40 GMT
References: <4281@b-tech.UUCP>
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
Lines: 30
Summary: controller type

In article <4281@b-tech.UUCP>, zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
> 
> > I was plagued with random pseudo-errors when I tried to use two hard drives.
> > These errors were fake in that no media error existed, but real in that the
> > file system got corrupted.  I finally had to solve it by goiong back to just
> > one hard disk.  The problem was repeatable on demand by using cpio to try to


     Is there any common controller being used by the sites having massive
dual-disk errors ?  I have been running two hard disks for almost 9
months and haven't had any problems. (I should know better than to say
this). I had some problems with divvy setting up the file system properly
on the second disk, but once I got through that, the drives worked fine.
I even tried the cpio experiment. I cpio -p 10MB worth from the second
disk onto the first disk, simultaneously with News expire, simultaneously
with the first disk doing a "find . -depth -print" and had no problems.
I mean, the disks were cranking big-time forever. :-)  Im using fairly
bland hardware. A Compu-Add 8 Mhz 286, with a WD-1002 controller. One
unique thing about my second hard disk. Due to the annoying problem with
divvy, my second disk has always been a single partition configured
as /dev/dsk/1s10.  Hope this helps shed some light on the problem.


					John


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