Nick,
You may want to give ftape-4.03-pre2 a try.
I had much better success with it.
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On Sun Nov 29 at 19:14 Nick Holloway pondered:
>I have just installed a Ditto Max pro with PnP accelerator card, and
>I've installed ftape 4.02 to go with it (kernel 2.0.36).
>
>The first tape I used worked fine, and I have been able to do some small
>test backups. I took the advice of reducing the max data rate to 3000
>to reduce overruns (along with "hdparm -u1 -m16").
>
>However, the second tape I tried (Imation 5GB) one fails to decrypt the
>bad sector map, reporting tape parameters inconsistency, which means
>that I can't use this tape. I thought the media might be duff, but
>I can use it fine with the DOS qbackup.
>
>So, there is something that ftape doesn't like this tape, which doesn't
>prevent the DOS based software from using it (which means I can't really
>exchange it).
>
>Here is the extract from the syslog:
>
> ftape-ctl.c (ftape_get_drive_status_Rfce64bdc) - status: new cartridge.
> ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape detected.
> ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) - post QIC-117B drive @ 2000 Kbps.
> ftape-ctl.c (ftape_calibrate_data_rate_R60916cc1) - Highest FDC supporte
>d data rate: 3000 Kbps.
> ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape detected.
> ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) - unknown length QIC-3020 tape.
> ftape-read.c (ftape_decode_header_segment_R33a117a7) - Found Ditto 2GB
> tape, trying to decrypt bad sector map.
> ftape-read.c (ftape_decode_header_segment_R33a117a7) - calculated tape
> length is 729 ft.
> ftape-read.c (ftape_decode_header_segment_R33a117a7) - Tape parameters
> inconsistency, please report.
> ftape-read.c (ftape_decode_header_segment_R33a117a7) - reported = 6/14
>14/62/2/254/128.
> ftape-read.c (ftape_decode_header_segment_R33a117a7) - required = 6/14
>14/62/85/254/128.
> zftape-read.c (zft_read_header_segments) - ftape_read_header_segment_Rb
>3ab1535(zftape->ftape, zftape->hseg_buf) failed: -5.
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