At 2:17 Uhr +0200 1.10.2000, Herb Singleton wrote:
>My NetBSD 1.4.2 box (Generic kernel compiled for /dev/random support) has
>the system on one disk (sd0), and the user directories (/home) on a second
>disk (sd1).
>
>Using Netatalk, I am dragging my files to /home and then use "tar -cvP
>/files" to put them on to the tape. I've written and read several test files
>using this method and it seems to work okay.
>
>Well when I write a large number of files to the tape, I get the dreaded
>"esp0: !TC...." errors. The archives seem to imply that this error is a
>problem if you're running NetBSD on removable media. Has anyone had this
>error just transferring files to a tape drive? Should I be worried?

I saw a similar thing during large olume transfers on 1.3B. The PR#5214 was
open for a long time and I asked it to be closed early this year because i
was then unable to reproduce the problem with -current kernels.

Maybe you could try out a kernel from a 1.5ALPHA snapshot and see if this
changes anything?

	hauke

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