Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!wdl1.wdl.fac.com!spl26!rme
From: rme@spl26.spl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Tar Tape problems
Keywords: tar tape
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.153249.4308@wdl1.wdl.fac.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:32:49 GMT
Sender: root@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (SUPER USER)
Reply-To: rme@spl26.spl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr)
Organization: Ford Aerospace
Lines: 9
Nntp-Posting-Host: spl26

I've got a 386 AT clone, ISC2.2, and an Archive drive. After reading four
or five tape (tar -xfv /dev/rmt0) the next attempt to read a tape hangs.
I can kill the process but the device remains busy. The only way I
have found to clear the busy device is to powerdown to the reboot state.

Is there a way to fix this?? Can I unbusy the device?

Richard M. Emberson
rme@spl1.spl.fac.com