Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:42:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Problem using appletalk with MacOS X to a scsi hd with XFS.
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To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
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Am Freitag, 21.02.03 um 08:54 Uhr schrieb Seth Mos:

> Hello,
>
> I have someone from promise who is having problems accessing files 
> over Appletalk using MacOS X to a scsi disk.
> If anyone else out there is using this combination I would appreciate 
> the help.
> I have access to the hardware but not the time to spare at the moment 
> for setting up appletalk attaching scsi disks to my testbox etc.
>
> From: "Scott Liu" <scottl@promise.com.tw>
> To: <seth.mos@xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Mac X access to XFS filesystem on SCSI device problem?
>

[snip]

> Dear,
>
> I create a partition with XFS on SCSI device, and copy a lot of files 
> (about 500M bytes) from Mac X to this partition, sometimes it will 
> fail with error message "-50".
> I test this with xfs 1.01, xfs 1.1 and xfs 1.2 pre-release#5, the 
> problem also happen.
>
> But when the partition is ext2 on scsi device, XFS on IDE device or 
> ext2 on IDE device, they are OK.

This is strange. '-50' normally indicates a problem with filenames. I 
don't known enough about multilanguage support to be able to comment on 
this. I succeeded by trying to copy smaller parts of a directory tree 
(like, the first level of subdirectories apart from each others), which 
helped alot (for OS 9 Clients).

> It happens with XFS on SCSI device access from Mac X.
>
> Netatalk version is : netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3
> Mac version is : Mac X 10.1.4 Japanese version
>
> May you let me know how to solve this problem? Thanks.

netatalk-1.4b2 is ancient right now. To pipe up to the xfs motto, 
please try a more recent version if possible (like 1.6.0 or even 
1.6.1pre2, which is to become 1.6.1 shortly). Also, Mac OS X is known 
to have problems with netatalk in earlier versions. Would an upgrade to 
the recently available 10.2.4 be possible for further testing?

Regards,
     Harald
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Harald Wagener * FCB/Wilkens * An der Alster 42 * 20099 Hamburg