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In article <3qf7mt$rso@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>,
Geoff Green <spart@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>Just thought that anyone with a similar problem might like to know
>that the lockup problem went away after a kernel upgrade to 1.2.8
>
>Geoff Green (spart@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au) wrote:
>: I recently purchased a Conner 4326 DDS-2 tape drive, and it hangs
>: off my Adaptec 2842 SCSI controller. Small backups < 500M under 
>: DOS using Adaptec's software, or Linux (1.1.70) using tar seem to 
>: work OK.
>
>: When I try doing large backups under Linux, it seems to start OK,
>: but my system locks up at around the 1 gigabyte mark. Only a 
>: hard reset will restore it.
>
>: It's occurring when backing up normal user-level files, not device
>: file or anything weird like that. I haven't tested a large backup 
>: under DOS, as the bulk of my HD space uses ext2fs.

	This is more likely than not a different problem, but has anyone else
noticed that, should a backup try to back up /proc/kcore, Linux hard locks?
(This has been so in every version I've ever tested)

									-Craig