From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 11 15:38: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from beck.quonix.net (beck.quonix.net [64.239.136.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0531A37B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (pa-steclge-u1-c6b-396.stcgpa.adelphia.net [24.54.121.140]) by beck.quonix.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3BMR4r73697; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:34:49 -0400 Subject: Re: ata & tar From: John Von Essen To: "John A. Hengstler" , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John, I had same problem when I built 4.5-STABLE. The solution is to run the new MAKEDEV. Be sure to copy the new MAKEDEV (version 1.243.2.45 or later) located at /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV over to /dev. Then run it with /dev/MAKEDEV all This should fix it. John Von Essen President, Essenz Consulting (www.essenz.com) EMAIL: john@essenz.com DIRECT PHONE: (800) 248-1736 International: +01 814 861 0922 on 4/11/02 5:44 PM, john@hei.net wrote: > Greetings, > > I updated to 4.5-stable on April 1. > > I have been using tar to do my tape backups on a daily basis. Since the > upgrade, I have bee n noticing that tar when finished with the backup, it > stays in "top" without dieing. > > Here is the status in top (note the atprq status): > > 410 root -6 0 456K 184K atprq 0:42 0.00% 0.00% tar > > At first I thought I had a bad build or bad ata driver, so I recvs'd this am > and rebuilt kernel. Same results. > > Here is the tar command that I use: > > tar --create --verbose --gzip --block-compress --file /dev/rast0 / > > Kill and kill -9 don't get rid of the line. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? > > Regards, > > John > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message