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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recover from ft0: unrecoverable write error on block 3200
Date: 28 Aug 1995 11:17:00 +0200
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Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
> ft0: unrecoverable write error on block 3200
>(1) Why does the tape go back and forth?
Perhaps it endlessly attempts to recover from the failure. Probably
a driver bug.
>(2) How can I kill the ft process so that it releases the tape?
You can't. The process is sitting in ``Disk wait'', as you can see
from the D flag in the ps output. Disk waits are uninterruptible, and
since signal delivery happens only when the process is coming back
from system to user mode, the signal will never be delivered.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)