On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Gregory Malsack wrote: > Hello All, > > I have an ide tape drive. (AIX2) 35/90gb tape drive. When I run a backup job > I get several i/o errors. ... > I find that the dd command freezes up and I cannot even kill -9 the process. > (most likely because it is a kernel processes). Does anyone know why this > processess might be looking up. I have the feeling it has something to do > with ide-scsi.
There's more chance that someone will be able to help you if you provide full information about your deployment. What OS, what kernel version, what tape drive? I'd suggest ide-scsi too, but I don't have any advice to offer as to how to fix or workaround the problem. -- Charlie ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help