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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:30:19 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stuck "mt status" command -- how do I kill it?
Message-ID:  <20020912143019.GA42486@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <017c01c25a2e$44d88070$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <014d01c259c2$41992c00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020912070115.GF3181@wantadilla.lemis.com> <017c01c25a2e$44d88070$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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In the last episode (Sep 12), Anthony Atkielski said:
> Greg writes:
> > Possibly not.  I'd guess that you've found a bug in the tape
> > driver.
> 
> Would this be something that is timing-sensitive, i.e., that occurs
> when you give the mt command at just the wrong time?  Or would it
> always be related to some anomalous response from the drive hardware?

I've had this happen sometimes; usually power cycling the tape drive or
doing a "camcontrol reset <bus>" from another login frees up mt.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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