Hi, I'm running an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 Tape drive using ftape-4.02. I have also install the ftape-tools-4.x package. I'm using the Tape Drive with the FC020 Fast Floppy Card that came with it. I can rewind, retension with no problems using mt. My device is /dev/qft0. My problem is that I am trying to reformat some QIC-Extra Tapes on the drive that I got from the store because they are formatted with Seagate's special formatting for 4.4GBytes. I execute the proper commands for ftformat and it successfully goes out and calculates the tape length and parameters, but then it exits with a message saying Burst Writes have failed. When I try to tar to the tape drive, I get a can't write message trying to use the special formatted tape. (Actually, I don't seem to be able to write to any tape). Does anybody know what I need to do to get these tapes formatting on my Eagle TR-3? I'd appreciate any help. I'm sorry about being so vague on the message but it is very late, and I'm going to bed. If you request, I will put the exact commands and resulting messages in my next message. I would really appreciate the help as if I get this working, will let me start backing-up critical data. Thanks in advance, --Persona
