On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Smelly Pooh wrote:
> I'm running current as of April 6th and whenever I try to multi-volume tar
> directly to my parallel port zip drive using /dev/da0 it hangs when it gets to
> the end of the zip. I don't think it's a hardware problem because I've seen
> it happen on 2 completely separate machines.
This is a known problem, that writes to an end of a block device will cause a
lockup. I have no idea if anyone was going to fix this. Did you try using
the character device, which is what you SHOULD be using anyway?
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