Tape cartridge hung, SCO Unix 3.2

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to UH2 at psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer):
>We are having a problem where a
>   tar cv dirname
>commands "seems" to start working, but then freezes up.
>The tape /dev/rct0 starts to whir, and tar prints out the first
>6 or 7 files being added to the archive, but then the tape and
>the tar output just come to a halt.
>[System is Compaq 386/33 running SCO Unix 3.2]

I, also, have seen this problem.  The only fix I could come up with
was to shut down and power-off the Compaq.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>