Re: SUMMARY backup "Device busy"

Yeah,
thx very much !
I have overlooked...... and killed the tar process (not running for days)
and everything is working again now.

Frank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Schulte" <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
To: <chocobofrank@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: backup "Device busy"


> > Recently, my tape drive failed to response with "Device Busy" whenever I
tried
> > to touch on the tape drive by just any command include "mt rewind" or
"tar
> > clvf /dev/rmt0"
> >
> > I have switched the tape drive off and then on again but problem stilll
exist.
> >
> > I was wondering if there is any command to reset the tape related
modules on
> > the OS level without restarting the machine.
>
> You might also look for running processes that reference the drive.
> I have had this problem if a backup fails in starting (because I forgot
the
>    tape!); the tar process was still running in the background, and had
>    taken control of the device and wouldn't let go without a kill.
>
> ---
> Michael Schulte                    Specialist in Computer Science
> Math/CS Dept. (MC-61)              (314) 516 5239
> Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis        schulte@cs.umsl.edu
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