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 RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel