On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> Greetings! Occasionally, in the middle of a backup, the tape freezes
> with the following report in the kernel log:
>
> Nov 4 04:31:54 intech9 kernel: ide-tape: hdb: DSC timeout.
>
>
> lsof shows nothing using the device, though the external LED is lit.
> Subsequent attempts to try 'mt status' yield a hung mt process,
> perpetually sleeping in uninterruptible mode.
>
> ps ax |grep mt
> 16086 ? D 0:00 mt sta
> 16831 p1 S 0:00 grep mt
>
>
> The only way to restore functionality is to reboot.
>
> intech9# uname -a
> Linux intech9 2.0.35 #1 Thu Sep 17 16:05:52 EDT 1998 i486 unknown
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The IDE-FNG for Linux
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
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