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From: oscar@eismond.uucp (Carsten Tschach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Problems with hanging diskdrive in ISC 2.2
Message-ID: <0NIIJ1@eismond.uucp>
Date: 15 Aug 90 11:32:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Eismond Computer-Systems, Berlin, West-Germany
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Hello,

have you ever try to write some stuff with 'dd' to a not formated disk ?
I did so - I got a lot of messages on the screen with seek-errors !
But then I wasn't able to kill the job ! I tried it from root with kill -9 xx
and kill -7 xxx, but nothing happens.
Even if I removed the not formated disk and insert a formated one nothing
changed.
The only thing I could do to stop the was to shutdown the system.
This causes me a filesystem-check because dd ist in /usr/bin.
Does anyone have a solution for this problem ?

Thanks, Carsten

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