rdm@apple.com (Rich Morin) (06/05/91)
Exabyte unavailable after dump killed - war story & workaround
I occasionally need to kill a dump on my Exabyte 8200 (Sun-3, SunView,
SunOS 4.1.1). Hitting ^C stops dump, and prints out a query:
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to abort dump?: ("yes" or "no")
It also prints a prompt, however, as it has returned me to the shell.
(Typing yes at this point is therefore less than useful ;-).
In any event, I am then unable to use the drive. It seems that dump
leaves a bunch of TW processes lying around, which must be killed off
before the drive can be used. This is no big deal, once you know
about it, but *nothing* else (short of rebooting) works, and it can
get very frustrating, to say the least. With SunOS for Sun-3's frozen
at 4.1.1, I don't expect a fix, but this discussion and workaround may
be of use to some other schlunk...
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