Rodney,
Nope - those are still 3.04d. Please answer NO to the kernel configure
optiosn for ftape and grab the latest version from Claus' site. They
will still be modules, but they work a lot better. The main secret - do
not use the ftape drivers in the kernel tree.
Tim
Rodney Fisk wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm using the ftape drivers in the 2.2.5-ac3 kernel.
> Does that correspond to 4.02?
> I considered downloading 4.03-pre2, but haven't done it yet.
> I noticed last night that I couldn't unload my ftape modules, so I rebooted
> this morning and loaded fewer of them.
> Only ftape, zftape, and tpqic02 are loaded now.
> Ftape-tool recognizes the drive and I can get the correct size and do a listing
> of the drive.
> So, I try xbru and it refuses to recognize the drive.
> I've put the info in via the gui and via text editor directly to /etc/brutab.
> I even commented out the defaults in there and it flat refuses to offer my tape
> as a device to backup to.
> I'm using the personal edition which came w/RH 5.
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> BTW, I tried writing to it w/tar, but it hung after the first three files in
> the directory I was backing up.
> Hope this is enough info.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rodney Fisk
>
> Tim Jones wrote:
>
> > Rodney Fisk wrote:
> >
> > Rodney,
> >
> > It'll work with any of the 2Mb/sec controllers - Exabyte, Seagate, or
> > Iomega. I believe that you'll discover that the read-only state is
> > related to using a 3020 tape at the 512K/sec or 1Mb/sec rate, instead of
> > the 2Mb/sec rate. Once you get the accelerator, things should improve.
> > Oh, which version of ftape are you using?
> >
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