On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, LePine, Francis P. wrote:
> go here and check it out... might be what you want:
> http://www.estinc.com/home.html
It seems like it is not a GNU licence software and I'm not going to spend
any money just to check it still does not work.
> i got my copy with the 5.1 distribution of RedHat...
????
> I used it last night to make a backup... as part of the process it verifies
> the integrity of the data on the tape..
Almost every backup software can do this.
> oh yeah, you have to have ftape installed and working, which you seem to
> have... say, what version of ftape are you using?
I have tried two newest versions - 4.03-pre2 and 4.x-1998_12_20
>
> Frank
>
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> also, the ftape tools have an X11 front end called "ftape-tool" that
> provides point and click backups... have you tried that?
Yes, I have seen it but I am not a clicker so I will be executing the
commands from prompt :-) Smith and Wesson is original point and click
interface ;-)
Ftmt or mt works ok. They rewind, retension, position etc. The problem is
with writing onto a tape. I have played with ft_fdc_threshold,
ft_fdc_rate_limit with no effects. Same with parallel port setup in bios -
SPP, EPP, EPC. I am so sad :-((((
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