This was before I upgraded kernel & ftape version. Its no longer a problem.
Usually 'make distclean' does the trick. =)
I use an Iomega Ditto 1Gb (lets be frank, it holds 1Gb not 2 =) with a Ditto
Dash (not PnP) card. Incidentally when using it, ftape periodically says:
fdc-isr.c (get_transfer_size) - DMA residue <-> FDC result mismatch! This is no Ditto
EZ FDC
But it still works fine.
I can't find the logs from after both the massive file dump and after the crash.
Perhaps I deleted the former (it was BIG!) and fsck 'fixed' the latter. =)
Rob
p.s. Can we get the list's reply-to: set to the list address? =)
Juergen Leising wrote:
> Wow - are you sure ftape is your only problem? Kernel 2.2.2 is not the best one,
> I would upgrade at least to 2.2.3 (because I got some strange problems while
> trying to upgrade...); don't forget "make clean"; I got the impression that
> sometimes "make clean" is not enough: I removed the ftape directory as a
> whole and unpacked .tar.gz again - this helped indeed.
>
> No - but perhaps more information is necessary. What kind of tape drive
> do you use? What about the errors in /var/log/messages? If your system hangs
> the last messages are perhaps interesting...
>
> bye, juergen.
