[svlug] tape device is busy

[Mike O'Neill]

>>>> I seemed to have successfully hung my tape device.  When trying to access
>>>> it, I get the "device is busy" warning.  There is a "mt" process that I
>>>> cannot get to go away.  Short of rebooting, is there any other way to clear
>>>> this?  -m
>>> 
>>> What's:
>>> 
>>> $ fuser -v /dev/<tape device>
>>> 
>>> say?
>>> 
>>> It's possible to get drivers hung, one of the few reasons to boot a
>>> GNU/Linux box.
>>> 
>>> How have you tried to "get to go away" this mt process?  kill -9,
>>> perhaps?
>> 
>> Karsten, thanks for the response.  I couldn't wait any longer so I had to
>> reboot.  Therefore 'fuser' shows nothing.  Yes I did try kill -9, which
>> didn't work.  So if kill doesn't work, is there nothing left but a reboot?
> 
> In all likelihood, yes.  Sounds like your SCSI config might not be quite
> right, I'd spend some time looking into it, particularly if the problem
> resurfaces.

Okay sounds good but where do I look into my scsi config?  Docs?

BTW, the /dev/nst0 hung on "mt -f /dev/nst0 erase".  I haven't retried erase
and everything else seems to work fine so far.