nick <npt at visi.com> wrote: > > hi. so, i'm going completely crazy and i was wondering if someone might > point me in a direction i haven't tried yet. > > yesterday afternoon: > > mt -f /dev/nst0 erase > > no response. wait a bit. ps tells me it's dead. Looks like the normal behavior to me. mt will only print out messages during/after an erase if there were errors. It's not dead -- it's waiting on I/O from the drive. The drive does the erase on it's own, and will tell the system when it is done (often hours later). No, you can't interrupt it without a reboot (or maybe a paperclip, if your drive has some manual override mechanism). For future reference, there isn't much reason to erase a tape before using it, as far as I know. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Don't confuse me with the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ facts. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010724/e9506738/attachment.pgp