From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 17:14:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19157 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19152 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA25099; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:14:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adrian Carter cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape drives In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970418133820.00aaf2a0@mail.apic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Adrian Carter wrote: > Just got a Sony SDT-5200 DAT drive along with an Adaptec AHA-2910 SCSI > card (ahc0). BSD detects and recognises the drive, and an mt status returns > good data. However, using mt erase just sends the drive into permanent > 'busy' mode, never ending the task, and kill -1,-9,-ABRT all refuse to kill > the process, and issuing a reboot shuts down from multi-user, but never > reboots. I have to manually reset the machine. Why erase the tape? If you rewind it, then the next dump will overwrite all the information anyway. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major