Netnews Disk Problems on 3B2

[Robert C. White Jr.]

in article <651 at devildog.UUCP>, jallen at uxrd12.UUCP (Jon Allen) says:
>   3) Could the "missing inodes" problem described earlier be causing
>      this?  And if so, does anyone have an easy fix?

 This dosn't quite sound like the missing inodes problem, but if you
havent goten the offical patch of the inodes problem perhaps you
should.  AT&T has an offical "patch diskette" the image for which
they will mail you (as a cpio archive).  you have to put it on a
diskette of your own and the sysadm installpkg the diskette into
place.

> Any help or points would be greatly appreciated.  I would also like to hear
> if anyone else is experiencing this problem (as maybe there is some 
> underlying bug).  Thanks in advance.

One of the things that kept happining to us were phantom problems with
a 300mb disk on the differential SCSI bus, it would just sort of choke
and die sometimes, other times it would not format, or mirror, or
whatever.  We reinstalled the "SCSI Host Adaptor Utilities" and
a companion diskette whos name escapes me at the moment (perhaps
SCSI drive utilities or some such).  This reinstalation and a
mkboot of everything in /boot (if you've never done this read the
directions carefully!) just for good mesure took care of all the 
phantom bugs on our system.

Rob White.

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