> I had a backup script running overnight last night, and woke up to
>plenty of errors while it was running a verify using tar (tar dvf
>/dev/nqft0). There were several read errors, and something like EOC
>errors as well, and the verify aborted due to too many errors. I had made
>a successful backup of a different filesystem the previous day using an
>identical tape.
Try without the "v" on your tar command (tar df /dev/nqft0): I found on a
previous system (486-66 with an old hercules TTL card) that "v" on the tar
command what slowing down the system too much since it was writting one
line per file on the screen: then the tape had to stop (I guess the system
was not able to feed the tape fast enough), rewind a little bit and start
again, make an entry in /var/adm/messages, this was slowing the system even
more, creating an other error that was written again to the
/var/adm/messages, slowing down the system again..... You get the picture!
If I removed the v from the tar command, things were much better.
I since then replace the motherboard (P133) and the video card (SVGA), and
thins are smooth!
But, this may not be the problem....
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