Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!nuug!ifi!tore From: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Tape cartridge hung, SCO Unix 3.2 Message-ID: <1990Aug10.155705.217@ifi.uio.no> Date: 10 Aug 90 15:57:05 GMT References: <90206.103115UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> <26B5E996.3896@tct.uucp> Sender: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) Reply-To: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University in Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 Originator: tore@solvar.ifi.uio.no > >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 , The problem may come from lack of memory. Running a tapedrive consumes lots of memory. I'm not an expert on this, but I seem to remember that to use a QIC-150 tapedrive I had to install more than 4Mb of RAM. Perhaps someone can explain the connection between tapedrives and need of RAM. -- Tore Solvar email: tore@ifi.uio.no