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From: "Hambleton, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: FTAPE newbie need assistance
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Peace,
I recently purchased a DittoMax tape drive for home use, and
I installed FTAPE on my Linux box. I'm having this problem:
The DittoMax drive responds to the 'mt retension' command, and
the 'mt offline' command. But when I try to write to the tape
(a DittoMax 7gig cartridge) via any means--'mt erase', tar, or
whatever, the drive sounds like it's--just moving the tape forward
and backward a little bit--in an endless loop--like it's polishing
something. So tar or 'mt erase' won't proceed normally.
I built my own computer. It has an ATI Expert@Play pci video card,
Pentium 233 processor, 64 meg ram, RedHat ver5.1 (kernel 2.0.35-1).
I have of course retensioned the tape, and tried cleaning the tape head.
It doesn't seem to matter whether I use /dev/ftape or /dev/nqft0.
I purchased one tape so I haven't had the opportunity to try another.
I've been through the Ftape-HOWTO and the MCONFIG file. The driver
(FTAPE 4.02) compiles fine. '. insert' works fine too.
If anyone can help me out, much appreciated.
BTW I would like info on how to subscribe to this list. So for
this time, kindly send replies cc to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks much!
John Hambleton NOTIS 6.4.0
Olson Library GTO 6.4.0
Northern Michigan University CICS 1.7
Marquette Michigan 49855 MVS/ESA 4.2
Phone: 906-227-2741
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