Hi Edmund,
if AMANDA is something like a high end backup tool then it's
likely that is expects a tape drive compatible to the SCSI
tape command set. ftape 4.x brings this feature. Recently I
tried a similar approach trying to drive a ditto 2GB from
ARKEIA. Using ftape-4.03-pre-2 I got it running.
Keep in mind, that I had to change the ftape block size using
ftmt -f /dev/<ftape-device> setblk <newsize>
ftape has a default size of 10240 bytes and ARKEIA expected
8192. This was the key point to get it running.
Maybe AMANDA needs something similar.
Hint 1: Autoloading of modules may be a drawback in
this scenario because ftape falls back to it's default
everytime it's loaded again. As far as I know this
information is stored in the ftape header, so this is a
problem if you try to write to a new tape.
Hint 2: High End backup software (designed to use SCSI tape
drives) often do not offer a verify run because
SCSI tape drives do Read-After-Write-Verification. Floppy
tape drives do not have this feature.
> I'm currently running RedHat 5.2 Linux and I would like to install an
> old Colorado Jumbo 1400 with FC-20 Controller. What do I need to do to
> get this to work? I tried doing this before with a RH 4.2 system using
> FTape and never got it working. I'ld like to use AMANDA for the backup
> but I'll use whatever else it takes to get this working.
>
> ...
Good luck,
Martin
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