Re: (clug-talk) ide tape drive

[Nathanael Noblet]

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 02:54  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I just get continued input output errors but I hear
the tape drive run.

I have tried using taper and kdat as well same thing
happens.

I don't think it has a filesystem on the tape as its
new. The howtos I've rad specify that you must
format the tape before its useable. It really looks
like this is the problem but I have no idea how to
format the darn tape.

I've never used the type of drive you're talking about, but well I've never formatted a tape for a tape drive. Look at the man page for mt, is there a format command?

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