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Linux hangs with Exabyte tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Tue May 16 22:09:42 1995
From: John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@Master.ConcordPacific.Com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 18:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
Linux 1.2.8 is randomly hanging when I try to backup using an
Exabyte 8 mm tape drive connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller.
It seems to hang while I'm doing a backup, sometimes right away,
other times in the middle, or not at all.
I don't think it completely hangs linux: because I can stilll ping the
machine on the network; and sometimes when I'm running X I can still
move the mouse cursor, but I can't do anything else (ie disk access)
any ideas why Linux is doing this? Harddisk access is fine.
