Folks-- I've been finding that tar (to a tape) is hanging the system. "tar" to
a file works fine. The hang always comes at the start of the process before the anything is written to the tape. It's a hard hang ^C doesn't work and a system reboot is required. Even "init 0" from a console hangs after announcing "unmounting foreign files". There also seems to be some correlation with the size of files in the first tape block. Things freeze up if a large file (size > 1 tape block) is encountered at the start of the process.. There is no apparent device activity, so I don't think this first block is even being sent to the device. My configuration is: kernel: 2.4.18-benh0 debian: sid (and yes, I know what "unstable" means) platform: Mac 8500 (old world firmware) tape: Tecmar Travan NS20 on external SCSI Things work find when running MacOS. Has anyone else encountered similar problems? Does anyone have any debugging advice? Thanks --rich
