Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: monty%tartarus@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Monty BSD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: problems with cpio Message-ID: <8811201915.AA00858@tartarus.uchicago.edu> Date: 1 Dec 88 09:59:39 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 88 13:15:17 198 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 31, message 3 of 19 we've been having a problem with cpio and our tape drive. when we run cpio with the -B option (5120 blocksize), we get the messages: vmunix: xt0: lost interrupt vmunix: xt0: bad command synchronization and cpio aborts. its takes a while for these messages to appear; cpio starts out working fine, but eventually bombs. the problem only occurs with the -B option. sun came to look at the problem and, before we had isolated the -B option as the cause, thought that it was a bad controller, but replacing it didn't solve the problem. has anyone seen this problem before ? is it a bug in cpio ? we're running sunOS 4.0 on a 4/280S with a fujitsu GCR 9 track drive on a Xylogics 472 controller. thanks in advance, monty univ of chicago/biological sciences division internet: monty@tartarus.uchicago.edu