Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Tape cartridge hung, SCO Unix 3.2 Message-ID: <26B5E996.3896@tct.uucp> Date: 31 Jul 90 20:27:01 GMT References: <90206.103115UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 13 According to UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer): >We are having a problem where a > tar cv dirname >commands "seems" to start working, but then freezes up. >The tape /dev/rct0 starts to whir, and tar prints out the first >6 or 7 files being added to the archive, but then the tape and >the tar output just come to a halt. >[System is Compaq 386/33 running SCO Unix 3.2] I, also, have seen this problem. The only fix I could come up with was to shut down and power-off the Compaq. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,