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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:19:49 -0700
From:      "John A. Hengstler" <john@hei.net>
To:        "John Von Essen" <john@essenz.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: ata & tar
Message-ID:  <NFBBKBPLHCPKNFAJJKMKEEFECCAA.john@hei.net>
In-Reply-To: <B8DB87C9.3317%john@essenz.com>

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Already tried that as well this AM with the new kernel build and same
results.  The MAKEDEV version is 1.243.2.46

Regards

John

-----Original Message-----
From: John Von Essen [mailto:john@essenz.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:35 PM
To: John A. Hengstler; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ata & tar


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
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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
>
>
>
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