On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > Hi, > > > This kind of a problem of a process using a tape hanging in D state has > > occurred sometimes for numerous years. When the user has waited long > > enough (the default timeouts are loooong), the process has continued. When > > st has printed the command timed out, it has been usually a legitimate > > read or write. St has sent the command and waited for it to finish but > > this has never occurred. These problems may or may not be related to the > > current one. > > > > I have never been able to reproduce the problem in my systems. > > Do you have a SMP system? > I used to have an SMP system. Now I am using P4 HT with SMP kernel for testing. So, just having an SMP system should not cause this problem. -- Kai - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
