Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> # make sure to have enough swap space
> pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15
Uh, command's right, comment's wrong:
You want continous main memory chunks (of 32 Kb) for the DMA
buffers. Since the kernel uses 4 Kb chunks as page size, you may
easily not find them. So we use and release a great amount of
RAM (via swapout) so the chance is significant higher that these
continous chunks will be found. Nothing to do with swap space,
other than that it'll be used for stuff pushed out of the memory.
> I keep getting I/O errors with ftmt, and when I format a tape it tries to
> verify and hangs up at the end:
What does the log say?
> Formatting track 27, segment 4199
> Verifying track 0, segment 4200
It should! verify through all the way, yes.
> [root@click ~/bin]#> ftmt erase
> ftmt: /dev/tape: No such file or directory
ln -s /dev/nrft0 /dev/tape
> [root@click ~/bin]#> ftmt -f /dev/nrft0 erase
> ftmt: /dev/nrft0: Input/output error
AFAIR erase is no longer needed --- especially as a freshly
formatted tape should be erased. But still ...
-Wolfgang
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