From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 18 17: 2:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4493E155AB for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA45598; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:00:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:00:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Smelly Pooh Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP drive hangs machine In-Reply-To: <19990418220010.A3521@smooch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Smelly Pooh wrote: > I'm running current as of April 6th and whenever I try to multi-volume tar > directly to my parallel port zip drive using /dev/da0 it hangs when it gets to > the end of the zip. I don't think it's a hardware problem because I've seen > it happen on 2 completely separate machines. This is a known problem, that writes to an end of a block device will cause a lockup. I have no idea if anyone was going to fix this. Did you try using the character device, which is what you SHOULD be using anyway? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message