> >> > Yes the system is hang.
>
> This is not something a user process should be able to do, ever. If
> the system hangs, you've got a problem with the kernel of the OS, more
> likely in the SCSI tape driver. You'll have to reset the machine and
> start over, and hope for the best. But if the system hangs while
> writing garbage to the tape to test its length, there's no reason to
> have much hope that it won't hang while writing your backups too.
>
What kind of os problem could i have having???'
I running amanda 2.4.2 in a Linux7.0 box. And i built amanda from the tar
ball.
