From: kraus@rtsg.mot.com (David Kraus) Subject: SCSI, tar -cvMf /dev/fd1 errors, MCC .96 Date: 29 Jul 1992 15:13:14 GMT
Just last night, for the first time, I tried doing a multi-volume tar to
back up some of the mass of .tar.Z files I have laying around. (Been
running Linux for about 2 weeks so far.) When I attempted this, though,
every time that /dev/fd1 (a 3 1/2" HD floppy) is running at the HD starts
up, I get horrendous noises from the floppy, a stream of 'Floppy Reset
Called' messages, and at least 1 I/O error (don't remember the device, but
can recreate pretty much at will).
Setup is as follows:
386DX 33MHz
AMI BIOS
4M RAM
4M swap
/dev/sda ST296N with ST01 controller partitioned 40M Linux/40M DOS
Linux everything is on /dev/sda1
/dev/fd0 is 5 1/4" 1.2M
/dev/fd1 is 3 1/2" 1.44M
MCC .96 interim distribution
Thus far, everything's been running great. But, if there is a problem with
simultaneous disk accesses beyond just tar, it would mean not being able to
easily back up the HD...
This may have been covered long ago - checked the faq 06.1, which is the
last I have, and didn't see mention of it there, though.
What's going on?