>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
>E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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FTAPE/DittoMax help needed
John Hambleton, Academic Information Services Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:27:30 -0500
