Re: [flexbackup-help] dd freezes.

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

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.

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Charlie