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From: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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Subject: Re: problems with cpio
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Date: 15 Dec 88 22:50:29 GMT
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monty%tartarus@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Monty BSD) says:
>we've been having a problem with cpio and our tape drive.  when we run
>cpio with the -B option (5120 blocksize), we get the messages:
>
>	vmunix: xt0: lost interrupt
>	vmunix: xt0: bad command synchronization
>
 [ stuff deleted ]
>before ?  is it a bug in cpio ?  we're running sunOS 4.0 on a 4/280S with
>a fujitsu GCR 9 track drive on a Xylogics 472 controller.

We were getting similar errors on 3/280 with 2 Xylogics 451's.  They went
away after we put the Xylogics 472 controller before (in a lower slot
number) the 2 disk controllers.  If you have your 472 after the disk
controller, try exchanging them. I'm not sure why you would get them only
with "the -B option" ... we produced ours while using '/etc/dump'.

 -e

Eric Pearce
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