Hi Robert,
Cheap or not all drives, as far as I know, need to be able to detect
if a tape is in it. Matter-of-fact when you first put a tape in these
drives it does its reposition thing with the tape, so of cause it
knows. I just sent a previous response that might help you with this
problem.
Carl
On 01-Jan-99 Robert Paris wrote:
> I notice from my /var/log/messages, that, regardless of whether the
> Ditto has a tape
> in, some part of ftape or other returns 'no tape present'. I assume
> that this is because
> the Ditto is incapable of detecting if it has a tape in, being so
> cheap, and that the
> 'Device not configured' is a consequence of this? Am I right?
>
> Rob
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02-Jan-99
Time: 11:22:35
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