[ale] SCSI tape

[David Corbin]

I *THINK* it's forever.  I'll try it again.
And I DEFINATELY am worried that "kill -9" won't kill it....
----- Original Message -----
 From: Stephan Uphoff <ups at tree.com>
To: David Corbin <dcorbin at csol.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>; <ups at tree.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] SCSI tape


>
> Erasing a tape takes some time - the process issues a SCSI command and
> just waits until the drive is done.
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> There is a compile option in the driver to send a SCSI command where
> the tape drive returns status as soon as it starts the operation.
> ( It does not wait for the erase to complete 0> "mt erase"
>  returns immediately)
> It will still take forever to erase the tape.
> (Next mt commands will probably fail with BUSY status)
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> What is the problem ?
>
> Is your forever really a forever and the tape does not get erased ?
> Erasing should not take longer than writing a whole tape.
>
> Stephan
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> > I've a SCSI tape drive running on a RedHat 6.0 system.  It works OK, but
> > I do have one problem.  When I use "mt erase", it "runs forever".  I
can't
> > even kill the process with a "kill -9".
> >
> > ideas?
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