Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> This is a general question. I am using ftape-3.4d and kernel
> 2.0.36. Up to recently I had no problem whatsoever with the tape
> drive and ftape. Unfortunately, last night I cleaned the tape
> (Ditto Easy 3200 insider) as recommended in the user guide.
I assume you cleaned the tape drive's head before and you used
'clean' (no additives) highly concentrated (i.e. 96% or so)
isopropanol.
> Now I
> cannot write or read the tapes. This is the situation with the two
> tapes cartridge that were fine as I had extracted some files from the
> tapes a few days ago.
> I can communicate with the unit ( rewind, retens, etc ) but cannot
> get the status I get I/O error. If I try to erase the tape then I
> get a permission error.
Now, the big question: what do the log files say? There should
be logfiles somewhere under /var in your system, as directed by
/etc/syslog.conf (usually). Please extract the important lines
...
> When I extracted the tape this morning it was hot.
That is (being run all night) pretty natural for the tape and
drive -- unless you mean hot as in "Ouch, can barely touch it"
instead of "Oh, pretty warm".
-Wolfgang
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