Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> I suppose that that ftape only permits the application task to write at
> start of the tape and at the end (EOM) the tape (i.e. after all
> preexistent volumes).
Yes, because that is the correct (i.e. SCSI) behavior IIRC. And
it's a rather safe default (though I would even disallow writing
at BOT unless you erased the tape, just to be sure, but that
would be incompatible ... :-)
> Sometimes, when appending a new volume to tape, I have a fail in
> operation or while verifying this new volume (I have a Ditto Max
> Parallel :( ...). When this thing happens I can't delete the recent
> appended volume without arm the previous ones - it seems that the tape
> device driver doesn't let me do that. I think that should be possible to
> write to a tape just after any volume it already contains (blowing up
> all the files after it, of course, but preserving the ones before it).
Nope, because that would not be the correct behavior. However:
> If somebody knows how to do that in the current driver, please let me
> know. I suppose that what I am trying to do is not technically
> impossible to tape machine to perform. Actually, I think I could do
> that using the "Iomega Works" software (Using another tape/format, of
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh, it does? Doesn't it fail at times,
producing posts like yours? :-))
> course).
Ok, what you CAN do is manipulate the volume table (using VTBLC)
to delete or chanhge (and even add) entries. This is similar to
changing the FAT on a FAT-Filesystem, i.e. you can do very much,
but if you frag up, you are very likely to lose data. Anyway,
the vtblc that came with 3.04d would delete the last volume with:
vtblc -t
... assuming, you used the floppy tape 0. Ask 'vtblc --help'
for more info. Oh, and, children: Don't try this at home :-)
-Wolfgang
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