On Friday 16 August 2002 13:34, Jason Greenberg wrote: >Hello, > >Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. During many > of my operations, such as amtape, amdump, before anything > happens, the process just seems to hang. It must be caught in a > loop somewhere. I think it has something to do with the cleaning > tape, because during this command: > >bash-2.05a$ /usr/sbin/amtape Execulink label Execulink02 >amtape: scanning for tape with label Execulink02 > >I see this in the process list, once it has hung: > >[root@lon-backup root]# ps -feaw | grep zd >amanda 19720 19675 0 13:22 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh >/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -search E02 >amanda 19780 19720 1 13:22 pts/0 00:00:06 /bin/sh >/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -slot clean >amanda 20297 19780 0 13:29 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh >/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -slot clean > >If I ctrl-c, and try again, it will work. This seems to happen > often, but not consistently. > >Any thoughts?
This might be off the wall to some, but this puppy has played at my place before. I had some problems with that earlier, and they all went by-by when I stuffed the scsi card in the trash, ISTR it was an older adaptec 1540/1542 variation. I also finally gave up making a different copy of that card work here at home, seems it doesn't like tape drives with robots or something. Here I bought an advansys ABP-940 and all is now well, and the other machine now has an adaptec 2940 variation in it, working just fine. How close am I? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.11% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
