On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 at 4:17pm, James B. Byrne wrote > 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 That dd command will continue until it hits an EOF (I believe -- maybe EOD). Until then, it'll be in the 'D' state (waiting for I/O), and therefore unkillable. You'll just have to wait it out (or, as you conjectured, reboot). Is the tape drive reading (and, correspondingly, the disk writing)? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University