Re: Problem with ZIP disk write

James Rich (james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:53:57 -0600

>> I believe I have found an easily reproduced problem with >2.1.108
>> involving ZIP disks. We have been using a ZIP drive to backup our
>> home directories on our small server running 2.1.108. Someone
>> accidently removed the ZIP disk from the drive and didn't replace it
>> before the cron job ran to do the backup. The command we are using
>> to backup is:
>>
>> tar -cf /dev/hdd /home
>Do you have internal or external Zip Drive? Which one?

internal

>> Without the disk in the drive the machine locked up solid. There
>> were
> yes, i`ve got very same result on IDE internal zip drive.
> but mashine not locks up, just hags on for some time ( about 10 mins).
> and after that zip drive do not want to work properly, anlu reboot
> happened.hell knows why.

this was no 10 minute lock-up for us. cron ran at midnight - still
locked up solid at 10:00 am the next day.

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