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Exabyte problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Beattie)
Thu Jul 24 17:49:01 1997
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 07:40:21 +1000
From: Grant Beattie <gb@aus.ml.org>
Tethys writes:
> Once it's got to that state, the only solution (nearly -- see later)
> is to reboot. Even dropping down to single user mode kills all other
> user processes, but leaves the one accessing the tape. After some 10
> to 15 minutes hung, I occasionally get a SCSI timeout error message,
> but the process stay hung.
I have the same problem with my Exabyte drive (on a PAS16 scsi controller).
If I'm using tar for example, it will write a few files then hang just as you
describe.
Unfortunately I am at a loss as to why this is happening too :(
any advice appreciated.
grant
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