On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:57:24AM +1100, iware wrote:
> I am running NetBSD 1.5.2 and mounted a tape drive using
> 
> mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
> 
> I was bit impatient and manual ejected the tape before the process being
> finished.
> 
> Now I have a uncontrollable process
> 
> bash-2.05# ps uxw|grep mt
> root  2844  0.0  0.0   64    48 p1- D     4:50PM  0:00.00 mt -f /dev/nrst0
> rewind
> 
> I 've tried a no. of ways to kill it and it still exist (or not). When I
> issued mt command, the device is busy.

Maybe you just have to wait for the command to timeout. But for a rewind
the timeout may be very long ...

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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