I first want to thank the helpful folks who replied to a previous post of
mine concerning getting ftape to work with a Ditto Easy 3200 parallel port
drive.
I now have ftape 4.02 installed and working well on an IBM Aptiva S90 and
L61 (pentium II 200 and 300 MHz, respectivley) with ftmt, vtblc and tar run
from xterm. However, I have been told that cpio is superior to tar as a
backup utility, but I am having no success getting cpio to write to my drive
(a Ditto Easy 3200 parallel port drive which uses bpck-fdc.o).
My "tar" archives write and retrieve with no reported errors at a
ft_fdc_rate_limit=1000, ft_fdc_threshold=15. (The "status" command says that
it should work at 2000, but though it works, it "shoeshines" badly at the
higher speed.") If I type the command:
"find . -name '*' -print | cpio -o -H crc > cpio.vol", cpio writes a file
"cpio.vol" which appears to contain all the files in the current directory,
as expected.
However, if I attempt to write this to /dev/qft0 with the command:
find . -name '*' -print | cpio -o -H crc | /dev/qft0,
I get the message:
cpio: write error: Invalid argument
Broken pipe".
I have tried using /dev/nqft0 and /dev/nrawft0, with the same result.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
Perhaps related to this problem is why I cannot use cat to read the tape
archive? The command:
cat /dev/qft0 yields the error:
cat: /dev/qft0 :Invalid argument.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
Perhaps related to this problem is why I cannot use cat to read the tape
archive? The command:
" cat /dev/qft0" causes the drive to reposition, then give the error:
"cat: /dev/qft0: Invalid argument".
