I am using ftape 4.02 with an Iomega Ditto Max internal tape drive with the Ditto dash DX 4Mb floppy disk accelerator and am having trouble with the drive "shoeshining". if I issue any command other than ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 ret the drive will endlessly move back and forth. The drive was working fine and I made a sucessfull back up with it, but then it stopped working. I have not changed my hardware configuration or kernel since then. I have read the FAQ section about shoeshining. I don't have a computer running off a SCSI hard drive with a Adaptec 1542cf controller card. I do however have a Adaptec 2920 controller card ( which uses the future domain 16XX chipset BTW). I tried using a kernel with out support for this card and one with support for this card with no luck. Brian Chapman bchapman&polymail.calpoly.edu
