On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:30:03PM +0100, Roland Boden wrote:
> The system crashed with a lot of file system errors and e2fsck was not able to
>repair the file
> system structure. A lot files were lost and the system could not be booted. So I had
>to restore
> the files from the last backup. I then immediately made the backup again and ... the
>system
> crashed again ... (same story). I think i did it three times until I realized that
>there must
> be something wrong with the tape. I could not read the tape where the backup was
>stored (the
> backup when the system crashed). When reading the tape the system crashed again
>(with destroyed
> file system). I only could read the first part of the tape but not until the end.
> That's the story. I changed the tape and since then everything works fine (until the
>next tape
> will fail...?).
>
> The machine configuration is:
> PC with Cyrix CPU 120 Mhz, 48 MB RAM
> SCSI:
> Controller :Adaptec 1542 , ID=7
> HDD: IBM DCAS-34330, 4 GB, ID=0
> Tape: HP C1533A, ID=2
> CDROM: Toshiba XM-5701TA, ID=3
>
> ISDN: Teles S0
> Network: NE2000 compatible PCI adapter
>
> running the SuSE Linux distribution 5.2 with some partially upgrades, especially
>kernel update
> 2.0.36.SuSE
>
> If you have any idea what went wrong or what I can do, please tell me.
You did not tell us what the crash exactly was.
The AHA1542 is known to not recover well from aborted commands which will
result in infinite abort() reset() loops to the SCSI subsystem rendering
your system unuseable effectively. If this is what happended, you might
borrow some other SCSI HA and try whether the bad tape crashes your box
again. I guess no.
Regards,
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Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wuppertal, FRG
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