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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
- Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.230702.24012@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 23:07:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> <Sep01.200622.29551@engr.washington.edu> <1992Sep2.132641.27419@msc.cornell.edu>
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- rick@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
- >eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot) writes:
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- >|> If you are on 3.2.0, it is a bug in the tape device driver. Call software
- >|> support and get a fix. I did, and everything's fine now.
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- >As near as one can determine from Defect Support's APAR descriptions, this
- >appears to be IX21746.
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- The only defect (33241) associated with this apar was cancelled over a
- year ago
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- 33241: ix21746 SIGNAL CAUSES TAPE DRIVER TO HANG
- PMR: 9x492,293,000 created 91/07/25
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- SYSTEM CALLS TO TAPE DRIVE ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS (READ, WRITE,
- IOCTL) DON'T RETURN TO USER APPLICAT ION. A KILL -9 OF THE
- PROCESS FAILED TO TERMINATED THE PROCESS. THE TAPE IS IN
- AN UNUSABLE STATE AT THIS TIME, THE DRIVER IS HUNG WAITING
- FOR THE I/O TO BE COMPLETED (PRESUMABLY).
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