Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!bpa!phlsun!umn-cs!wytten
From: wytten@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: rdump, disappearing SCSI drives
Message-ID: <15144@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 89 21:42:04 GMT
Reply-To: wytten@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Organization: CSci Dept., University of Minnesota, Mpls.
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Am I missing something in the usage of rdump on The Cube?  I am trying
to rdump the SCSI drive to a Sun 3/160 running Sun OS 3.5.  The tape
drive in question is a Cipher M990 (might have the model number wrong)
We are at software release 0.9.  The command I am using is the following:

/etc/rdump 0udf 6250 julius:/dev/rmt8 /dev/rsd0a

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.  

We've had two cubes for about a month, and I've already had to rebuild 
SCSI drives three times and an optical disk once.  I've rebuilt the SCSI
drives because I find the cubes begging for someone to 'Insert the Disk'.
When I boot the system with the optical drive, I am unable to mount the
SCSI drive.  The error message I get is '/dev/sd0a: not found'.  (/dev/sd0a
exists in the file system, but the cube doesn't recognize that the hardware
exists, I think)


 Dale Wyttenbach		     |		...rutgers!umn-cs!wytten
 wytten@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu	     |		   wytten@umnacvx.bitnet
Computer Science Department Systems Staff--University of Minnesota, Minneapolis