Re: VAXstation 4000/90 SCSI weirdness on 10 RC5
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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Which could be because a stalling disk maybe. I still suspect your
disks... :-)
Do you have any other disk you could try with. Also, do you have proper
termination on the SCSI bus and so on?
Johnny
On 2024-03-23 13:14, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:57:12PM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
>> From then on, I can label it, newfs it, and transfer the contents of my
>> old disks by running "dump | restore". Here the oddity continues, after
>> transferring /usr (approx. 10GB), the system still works, but if left
>> sitting like this for a few hours it'll grind to a halt. It can still be
>> pinged, but it otherwise it appears dead. Continuing transferring data
>> from other filesystems sees transfer rates dropping continuously until
>> it all grinds to a halt, too.
>
> Another data point: After copying /usr and /var, I'm now copying / onto
> the new disk, and it stopped in this state:
>
> [ 73882.4178100] load: 1.48 cmd: restore 16367 [needbuf] 3.05u 15.43s 0% 1212k
> 38.74% done at 134 KB/s, finished in 0:04
>
> So I suppose the system is running out of buffers somehow?
>
>
> Hans
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