Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> At 12:13 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Jean-Michel Lacroix wrote:
> >The drive works... most of the time! But it gives my some error when
> >writting to it. I do not have the log with me at this, but I can provide
> >them if necessary. I do not want to go into any details, but sometimes the
> >drive is "shoeshinning" ad nauseam, and does not do anything.
Had similar problems. Tape drive (Ditto Easy 3200 Insider) often
spooled fast-forward or -reverse far off the mark, often to BOT
or EOT. Probably a monday unit. Next one will be SCSI (or IDE).
I patched the ftape 3.04d so the requests for F-F or F-REV were
halved, shorter searched were done by slow-search and the fallback
to slow-search was very soon. Mail if you want the diff.
> >1- Does anybody know if there is any problem to use the Ditto Easy, and do
> >I have to upgrade to Ftape 4.02, or Kernel 2.2.x.
4.02 has some important write error recovery features, but won't
have hardware compression. 2.2.x and ftape does not mix very
well at the moment, but will hopefully soon.
> I too have a ditto easy 3200. The general consensus that I've seen is that
> you need a fast CPU'd machine to bettter to fully use the ditto (ie P166,
> P200, etc).
No, that's the Ditto Max (Pro) and the Ditto Dash II ... the
Ditto 3200 is some other beast, a normal floppy tape drive, not
a 'high speed' (hah) unit.
> >much about the Ditto Easy 3200, just the Ditto 3200, and I do not know if
> >it is the same thing as a Ditto Easy 3200).
> I've been told they're the same, and I've been told they are different.
AFAIK they are the same, the 'easy' just refers to the easy,
one-click-backup, windows software ... I think.
-Wolfgang
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