Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> At 6:27 Uhr +0100 10.12.1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> >Paul Ripke wrote:
> >>
> >> Not sure if this made it to the list, so here it is again.
> >>
> >> Also, I have tried the NCRSCSI kernel - while it does not crash, it
> >> drops bytes every few 100k, stuffing the CRCs.
> >>
> >> Looks like some code somewhere can't handle the 1024k blocksize AIX
> >> uses on tapes... Fairly often (ie, 3 out of 5 times) this problem
> >> results in a hang, but the above was generated from single-user
> >> mode panic.
> >
> >Yes, this is a somewhat known problem, I believe.  We really don't support
> >non-512K media at the moment (at least not the last I heard).  There were
>  ^^^^^^^^^
>          Huh?
> This is /dev/*r*st0, right? dd(1)'s blocksize and the (ffs related)
> blocksize of a block device ate two horses of different colours, methinks...

Oh, a tape...darn, I must've been half asleep when I wrote that last
night, sorry for the noise.  The problems that NetBSD has seem to usually
show up on MO media, iirc.

Later. 

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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