Sean Carmody wrote:
> I do regular backups to tape on an internal IDE drive using
> taper (vers 6.9b). Although it usually behaves OK, every
> now and then it spits the dummy. Unfortunately when this
> happens, the tape drive decides it's busy (any attempts
> to access it with mt, for example, respond with "Device
> or resource busy") and taper does into an uninterruptable
> sleep (presumably because the tape drive is no longer
> responding). Rebooting cures everything, but is pretty
> brutal. Does anyone know how to reset the tape drive without
> rebooting?
I used to use Taper with my Colorado IDE drive. Ditch it.
It never did work properly for me either. It needs taper
to restore as well.
Mike
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