Entire systems halts during DDS-2 tape backup

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From: Geoff Green
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00

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I recently purchased a Conner 4326 DDS-2 tape drive, and it hangs
off my Adaptec 2842 SCSI controller. Small backups < 500M under 
DOS using Adaptec's software, or Linux (1.1.70) using tar seem to 
work OK.

When I try doing large backups under Linux, it seems to start OK,
but my system locks up at around the 1 gigabyte mark. Only a 
hard reset will restore it.

It's occurring when backing up normal user-level files, not device
file or anything weird like that. I haven't tested a large backup 
under DOS, as the bulk of my HD space uses ext2fs.

Any help *greatly* appreciated.

Geoff...

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From: spart@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (Geoff Green)
Subject: Entire systems halts during DDS-2 tape backup
Date: 1995/05/25
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