Greetings again... Please respond directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not a member of this list...thanks in advance... I purchased a DittoMax for a Linux box in my library. Supposedly, FTAPE 4.02 will drive the device. Administrators would not spring for the cost of say an Exabyte 8mm SCSI tape drive for my Linux webserver, but I insisted we needed backups. I researched and found that FTAPE 4.02 supports the DittoMax from Iomega, a relatively cheap solution. Well, it does, ie., the drive responds to 'mt' commands like 'erase', retension, etc. A 'tar' of the root filesystem seems to make a complete backup onto a DittoMax 7 gig cartridge. With roughly 2 gig of data on the hard drive, this takes a while to complete. BUT...when I try to read the tape with 'tar' this doesn't get very far before CRC errors kill 'tar'. I've tried cleaning the drive head, using different tapes, etc. Using RedHat 5.2, kernel=2.0.36-3. The drive is an internal Ditto Max with the 'Ditto Dash' accelerator card. I have tried to retension and erase the tape first, but with no luck. I've been going over suggestions found at the FTAPE website <http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/> with no luck. The only things I can think of left to do are perhaps: upgrade the kernel to 2.1.x or, install the DittoMax in my Win95 workstation--and ftp the contents of the Linux box hard drive to my workstation onto the DittoMax. Would anyone else have similar experiences with FTAPE & DittoMax? Suggestions for resolution?? Thanks much!!!!!!! *************************************************** * John S. Hambleton LMS 6.2.1 * * Olson Library GTO 6.2.1 * * Northern Michigan University CICS 1.7 * * Marquette, Michigan 49855 MVS/ESA 4.2 * * * * Phone: 906-227-2741 * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *************************************************** * Doctor, you must learn to control your * * passions. They will be your undoing. * * --Spock, "Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan" * ***************************************************
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John Hambleton, Academic Information Services Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:07:14 -0500
