Re: LTO-2 acting up with netbsd-5?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:58:14AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I had holding disk as LFS, and was getting processes stuck in tstile.  I
> > converted the filesystem back to UFS2 with logging.  Now I don't get the
> > tstile problem.  Is there an open PR about lfs and netbsd-5?
> >
> > The tape drive still seems to be acting up.  I have ordered a new one.
> >
> > When writing to tape, the system was very sluggish, but load average
> > remained low.  I tried to write DVD while writing to tape, and
> > apparently provoked a reboot.
> >
> > So I wonder if locking is not quite right with st(4).
> >
> > Is anyone else either successfully using a SCSI tape drive, or having
> > trouble with one, under 5.0?  How about SCSI disk on ahc(4)?
> 
> I updated to
> 
>   NetBSD 5.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #9: Tue Mar  3 14:06:32 EST 2009
> 
> From sources dated (UTC)
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 gdt  wheel  1818 Mar  3 17:11:36 2009 NetBSD-5/UPDATE.src
> 
> and installed a new LTO-2 drive (same model).  I have written over 100G
> of data with no troubles.  I will try the old one at some point.
> 
> 
> I have received no reports that anyone is either able to use st(4)
> drives or is having trouble.  I have also received no reports of trouble
> with LFS or success.

LFS is known broken in netbsd-5

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