Subject: Re: how to mess up your week working around failing disk
To: Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 10/13/1999 17:23:02
According to Sean Doran:
>
>   my guess is that this is sd0 failing again.   anybody wanna have
>me do anything before i type more at db> ?   i need an rsi break, so
>if you're fast you can help improve NetBSD's resilience in pessimally
>ugly i/o situations. -:)
>

Try using tar instead of dump - I had the same thing happen to me when
I had a dodgy scsi bus and was doing a disk to disk copy.  I put it
down to my flaky setup.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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