Juergen Leising wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:44:27AM +0200, Jaco de Groot wrote:
> > Jaco de Groot wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'am running:
> > >
> > > * ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99
> > >
> > > * Red Hat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-22
> > >
> > > * Conner 3200MB Travan internal tape drive with a CTC-2MB
> > > Floppy-Controller.
> >
> > I now downloaded ftape-4.x-1999_09_07.tar.gz and was able to
> > compile and insmod the modules. But when running taper I'am
> > getting the same result as with version 3 of ftape shipped
> > with Red Hat 6.0 when backing up:
> >
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
>
> Hi, this message is presumably related to taper, not to ftape.
> I myself avoided the segmentation fault by upgrading taper to
>
> version 6.9a
That solved the problem!
> that can be found at
>
> http://www.omen.com.au/~yusuf/
>
> But there remain still some problems with taper, especially as far as the
> restore module is concerned.
Should I avoid using taper? I've tested the restore module by getting
some
files back from tape and didn't encounter any problems.
> So my "real" streamer (scsi) is not run by taper any more,
> but by some scripts using afio, instead. They can be found at
>
> http://www.stud.uni-bayreuth.de/~a0037/afio.html
Maybe I will have a look at this.
Jaco de Groot
