Martin Jacobs wrote:
> ok, this sounds not really bad. But one question is still
> open. One of your last logs showed that you have a 765
> compatible fdc. AFAIK this supports at max. 500kbps. Please
> have a look at your /var/log/messages file. There you should
> find a message like
>
> Highest FDC supported data rate
>
> There ftape-ctl.c should report a value of at least 1000kbps.
> Any value below won't work with your ditto 2GB. This is
> definitive and a limitation by design of the IOMEGA drive.
Oh dear. 500kbps maximum. Noooooooooo! Iomega don't like tell
you about the limitations of the Ditto until you buy it, do
they? =)
> If this is true it's useless to do anymore work on this issue
> until you have a ditto dash. It's not expensive, I did pay
> something about DM 75,-- (approx Euro 38).
*looks at sickeningly low bank balance* OK, backups will have to wait. =)
> This is typical if tape isn't able to read the data from the
> tape. The status command tries to read the header segment
> with technical information and this fail's with the wrong
> data rate.
Rob
> Martin
