> I have big trouble with my Iomega Tape Drive. It works fine with Win 95,
> but I do not want to use Win 95 any longer.
> When I do small backups like these described in the ftape HowTo it work
> very well with Linux. But when I try to backup my system data (at about 900
> MB in the first try), backup seems to work. But when try to verify the Data
> I get Input/Outpu Errors after a while.
> I tried tar, cpio and afio, they all show the same behaviour, so I think it
> must be the ftape driver!
How do you know it is not the tape then ?
I something similar, and run the same tape
on win95 and the ditto tools shows a lot of
error counts on the tape but somehow managed
to adjust/correct to it.
So I switch to another tape and run the
backup in linux and it restores fine.
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Henry Cheung, de Havilland
Bombardier Aerospace Group
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