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
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