I am experimenting with a scsi2 HP SureStore DAT24 attached as an external device to an Intel P4 system. I am attempting to create a raw disk image of a dds2 tape made on a non linux system.
My immediate problem is that I am trying to terminate a dd process and having no luck. dd was invoked thus:
dd if=/dev/nst1 of=/tmp/disk.dds2.img bs=512 & pid=$!
a ps reveals this:
ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1936 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 2034 pts/0 00:00:15 dd 2093 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
a call to kill has no apparent effect:
kill -s SIGKILL 2034 ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1936 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 2034 pts/0 00:00:18 dd 2100 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
and calls to mt show this:
mt -f /dev/nst1 status /dev/nst1: Device or resource busy
Short of a reboot, how do I get control of the tape drive back? (once I get the drive back I will have a lot of other questions regarding dd.)
Regards, Jim
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