Hello Hartmut,
> I never got my ftape v4.02 08/29/98 to work properly with my �teak 400/800
> floppy tapedrive'.
>
> It would not append archives.
> It would not find filemarks like 'eom'.
> I could do what I wanted like:
> 'ftmt - /dev/nqft0 fsf1'
This should give an error message like
ftmt: invalid tape operation `-'
> or
> '/dev/nqft0 eom' etc, etc.
Did you ever try
ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 fsf 1
^^ ^
if you omit the -f switch (or --file) ftmt uses the compiled in
default or the device defined by the TAPE environment variable.
This should work without problems. If you have trouble instead
check with
vtblc -f /dev/rawft0
if the tape contains a volume table, which is necessary to know
where the files are located on the tape.
>
> I tried everything
> consulted the mailbox again and again.
> Claus-Justus Heine asked for a 'var/log/messages'.
> -Never heard anything from him.
>
> I was so frustrated with Ftape that I gave up.
>
> Now here is my Question.
>
> Is there a hope that some newer ftape version will behave differently?
> I got pretty frustrated with ftape
> my tapedrive works flawless with win95
> Shall I make a new try?
Yes. It should work. Have a look at
man ftmt
even if the ftmt man page is an alias to the mt man page, ftmt is
command line compatible to mt but it knows the special ioctl
calls to the ftape driver.
Did you download the ftape documentation? Look for
ftape-4.x-doc-1.03.tar.gz
There is a lot of information. And you can use your favorite web
browser to read it.
> ...
Good luck.
Martin
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