[PLUG] killing "D" state processes?

Dan Young dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us
Tue May 14 23:45:28 UTC 2002


I'm on 2.4.18-4. FWIW, I didn't have this problem on the 2.4.9-31 
kernel. Related? Who knows...

I'm able to do mt status on my drive, but anything else (mt rewind, mt 
offline, etc) hangs.

The tape drive is an HP-branded Travan-4 hanging off an adaptec 2940.

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District

Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>>"Shannon" == Shannon C Dealy <dealy at deatech.com> writes:
> Shannon> What kernel version are you running?
> 
> "uname" says 2.4.16.  Oddly, about 5 minutes after I sent the message,
> the process went away and I could at least "mt status" the drive.
> But, when I tried to rewind, it hung again.  I am getting messages in
> the logs that indicate some kind of failure (either communication or
> hardware, not sure yet).  They look like:
> 
>    May 14 14:57:41 coulee kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 13945266, scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Rezero Unit 00 00 00 00 00 
>    May 14 14:57:41 coulee kernel: scsi0: Aborting CCB #7064897 to Target 5
>    May 14 14:57:41 coulee kernel: scsi0: CCB #7064897 to Target 5 Aborted
>    May 14 14:57:41 coulee kernel: st0: Error 26030000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x6, host bt 0x3).
> 
> I am thinking a nice gentle reboot at this point might clear it up.
> 







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