Re: tbtape crashes system

Posted in 1993

Colonel Panic — 8 Apr 93 03:27:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <C546u6.1uo@aaahq05.aaa.com> kurt@aaahq05.aaa.com writes: >My organization is running Informix 4.10 on a Sun 330 on a 7x24 schedule. >It is manually backed up daily. Yesterday the operator started to perform his >daily backup and inserted a write protected tape. tbtape crashed the system!!! >Below is the system log entry. > >Apr 6 18:21:56 aaahq03 vmunix: st0: wrong tape for writing, use DC6150 tape (or equivalent) >Apr 6 18:25:27 aaahq03 vmunix: panic: timeout table overflow >Apr 6 18:25:27 aaahq03 vmunix: syncing file systems... [25] 2 [25] 2 tbtape didn't crash your system; your buggy kernel or tape device driver crashed the system. At worst, the driver should have returned an i/o error or something. Kernel panics are NEVER the application's fault. >Kurt Kessel >American Automobile Association >Kurt@aaa.com -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "The disparity between the treatment of Ron Brown and the treatment of Zimba (sic) Wood or Zoe Baird I think is rather dramatic." -- Patricia Ireland, NOW President, 2/8/93