oscar@eismond.uucp (Carsten Tschach) (08/15/90)
Hello,
have you ever try to write some stuff with 'dd' to a not formated disk ?
I did so - I got a lot of messages on the screen with seek-errors !
But then I wasn't able to kill the job ! I tried it from root with kill -9 xx
and kill -7 xxx, but nothing happens.
Even if I removed the not formated disk and insert a formated one nothing
changed.
The only thing I could do to stop the was to shutdown the system.
This causes me a filesystem-check because dd ist in /usr/bin.
Does anyone have a solution for this problem ?
Thanks, Carsten
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UUCP: oscar@eismond.uucp ...!unido!tmpmbx!einoed!eismond!oscar jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (08/20/90)
In article <0NIIJ1@eismond.uucp> oscar@eismond.uucp (Carsten Tschach) writes: > >have you ever try to write some stuff with 'dd' to a not formated disk ? [ ... stuff about getting an unkillable process emitting lots of errors...] >Does anyone have a solution for this problem ? Yes, DON'T DO THAT :-} :-}! Sorry, but support types just LOVE to be able to say that from time to time. Disclaimer: IMHO only, not LCC's. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM