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Re: Lockup morning after tape backup

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From: Chris H.
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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From: chrish@gate.net (Chris H.)
Subject: Re: Lockup morning after tape backup
Date: 1996/06/03
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