Hello,
I've recently installed the taper program b/c I wasn't able
to write to a DC2000 QIC 40 tape.. Although, I'm currently
running ftape 2.08, I just downloaded zftape 1.06(a version of ftape
that supports compression).
I'm running slack3.5(2.0.34)
My questions:
How does one setup a 3M-DC2000 40mb(Qic 40) tape for archiving?
I've taken the liberty to cut some error msgs from /var/log/messages
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May 28 09:40:50 rufnek kernel: ftape-2.08 960314
May 28 09:40:52 rufnek kernel: [002] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_activate_drive) - drive
wakeup method: Colorado.
May 28 09:40:55 rufnek kernel: [003] ftape-io.c (ftape_set_data_rate) - post
QIC-117B drive @ 500 Kb/s.
May 28 09:40:55 rufnek kernel: [004] ftape-io.c (ftape_set_data_rate) - unknown
length QIC-40 tape.
May 28 09:40:55 rufnek kernel: [005] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_calc_timeouts) - Unknown
tape length, using worst case timing values!.
May 28 09:40:58 rufnek kernel: [006] ftape-read.c (read_header_segment) - header
segments are 0 and 1.
May 28 09:40:58 rufnek kernel: [007] ftape-read.c (read_header_segment) - calculated
tape length is 205 ft.
May 28 09:40:58 rufnek kernel: [008] ftape-bsm.c (extract_bad_sector_map) - 36 bad
sectors.
May 28 09:40:58 rufnek kernel: [009] ftape-read.c (read_header_segment) - This tape
has no `Linux raw format' label,
May 28 09:41:03 rufnek kernel: [010] ftape-rw.c (ftape_dumb_stop) - aborting
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I'm not sure what all of these errors mean but I'd like to use the
taper program w/zftape.. I assume that I'll have to do
ln -s /dev/zftape /dev/nrft0
ln -s /dev/zftape /dev/rft0 (rm /dev/ftape) ?
Thanks in advance..
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Alfred
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