Re: writing cdhdtape to CD

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

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Anders Hogrelius wrote:
> 
> This problem has been there a long time, at least since 3.0. It does not 
> only affect the CS20/DS20L but also the DS20 and 264DP. It is also the 
> reason why I gave up on trying to use NetBSD on my production boxes. I 
> suspect it might be related in some way to the problem Michael described 
> too as I ran in to that problem when I tried to boot my boxes with a 
> non-MP kernel. I didn't dig deeper into the cause however I can say 
> that it is not driver specific, the same problem occurs regardless of if 
> your disk is hooked up to the internal SCSI chain or to a card in the PCI 
> slots. It doesn't seem to be SCSI specific either as for me it thrashed 
> the filesystem on disks hooked up to the ATA controller too when I tried 
> that.

Can you give more details on the issue ? I have NetBSD 5.0 running on a
DS20 and several XP1000, and don't have issues with it. All are UP though.

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