From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 7:30:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6876C37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DA843E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g8CEUJIH010720; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:30:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:30:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Stuck "mt status" command -- how do I kill it? Message-ID: <20020912143019.GA42486@dan.emsphone.com> References: <014d01c259c2$41992c00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020912070115.GF3181@wantadilla.lemis.com> <017c01c25a2e$44d88070$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <017c01c25a2e$44d88070$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 " from another login frees up mt. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message