[RAS] nebka

[Thomas Krichel]

  Christian Zimmermann writes

> This just confirms that this machine is not capable of handling any  
> instruction involving large directory trees. If you have to use rsync,  
> split it in pieces...

  We can't do this. We need a running machine.

> I went to reboot the machine. The screen was showing the same ext3 errors 
> we had with earlier crashes.
>
> HOWEVER, the machine is not booting now. It hangs with:
>
> aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang?
>
> A rapid googling of this reveals that we have either to modify BIOS 
> specs, recompile the raid driver, make sure we have kernel version 2.4 (I 
> think we have), or other steps that are beyond my competence. I warrant 
> Tim can do this, but he is not in today. I hope he can do it tomorrow. I 
> will be teaching 8:00-1:45 tomorrow.

  There is no raid on the macihne. 

> Thomas, please note that Tim is a very busy person, and he has helped us 
> a lot. But we should not abuse his goodwill. So think hard before 
> launching big operations on this machine.

  I can not backup or move things with individual instructions
  file by file. If yau can, go ahead. Bob sohuld know haw
  to clone the disk on a bigger one. 

  I am very sorry about this, and if I ware in NYC, I would come
  to Storrs to help. 




  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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