Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:00:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Smelly Pooh <blokey@indigo.ie> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP drive hangs machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904181959150.45172-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990418220010.A3521@smooch>
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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?
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