Hi Richard,
to cite another guy of this list:
The answer my friend lies in the logs.
Please show as /var/log/messages.
> I am a new user of ftape. I installed it on two RedHat Linux installations
> (kernel 2.0.34-6; IBM Aptiva S90 and L61, pentium II computers). I got both
> to run fine for two weeks or so with two Iomega Ditto 3200 Easy parallel
> port drives on qft0 using bpck-fdc.o driver.
>
> ...
>
> I have exausted my ideas about why the drive should fail to work
> with ftape under linux.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Richard Denney
Martin
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