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Article #6019Re: Lockup morning after tape backup
From: Chris H.
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <31B04747.1333@megamed.com>, Blake <bfowers@megamed.com> wrote:
>Your problem is most likely the crappy nlms that run your tape backup
>program. If this program doesn't use any nlms it could also be support
>nlms loaded when the program loads. Your solution: in Netware 4.x you can
>load the domain.nlm (load first thing in startup.ncf, you'll have to
>reboot once for this, but not every time) then switch to the OS_PROTECTED
>domain, I believe the command is "SET DOMAIN = OS_PROTECTED" at the
>console prompt, now every nlm that is loaded will run in Intel protected
>mode, whereby these nlms will NOT crash your system. The only tradeoff is
>a little speed loss on THOSE nlms which are loaded there. Now, when they
>crash you can read the console, or set conlog working and you'll know
>what happens when those nlms crash themselves. (check my use of the
>domain nlm, as I'm going by memory here).
Domain will not work with anything that has to access the hardware via a .DSK
driver (like tape backup software).
More than likely he has a hardware problem. If the SCSI BUS hangs whenever
you try to push a whole bunch of data across it, you need to check things
like Transfer Rate on the controller, Cable Length, If problem persists with
different media, etc.
- Chris
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe659,45971838e637d45b X-Google-Attributes: gidfe659,public X-Google-Thread: fa939,45971838e637d45b X-Google-Attributes: gidfa939,public X-Google-Thread: f8bf7,45971838e637d45b X-Google-Attributes: gidf8bf7,public X-Google-Thread: 10f035,45971838e637d45b X-Google-Attributes: gid10f035,public From: chrish@gate.net (Chris H.) Subject: Re: Lockup morning after tape backup Date: 1996/06/03 Message-ID: <4ov6ll$133s@news.gate.net> X-Deja-AN: 158250667 references: <4ohb0p$o6a@mule1.mindspring.com> <31B04747.1333@megamed.com> organization: CyberGate, Inc. newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell,comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.os.netware.misc