Follow up on /dev/rmt8 under Ultrix

[Hurf Sheldon]

 Thanks for the interest - what happened was that earlier we had a dump
process hang & I couldn't get rid of it - 'I' status in 'ps -ax'- without
rebooting - I thought I had a similar animal this time around but when
I rebooted the boot hung after a "tmscp0:random interrupt ignored" message
directly after the tms 'discovery' message - I yanked the tape controller
& I can boot without error - new controller due on Monday & I hope that's 
the fix
 I had tried checking out (& resetting) the permission level and reading
MAKEDEV to make sure nothing had gone awry - I deleted & re-mknod'd the
device just to be sure - I did all this before rebooting on the off chance
I might learn something - The first reboot (before I yelled for help) went
ok. Of course this all happened at 6pm - The next day I did it all over
again to be sure I hadn't blown it by being in a hurry. This time the first
reboot hung - I tried a few more times (one successful) to eliminate any 
random randomness - "must be hardware - this can't be my fault"

 I REALLY appreciate the response to the obviously critical problem of not
being able to do backups and especially want to thank the DEC guys who care
about their baby. We think its the cat's meow ouselves.

hurf