Many of these tape drives cannot (appear not) to function at their
quoted speeds under Linux and ftape. I have restricted my Iomega
drive to 2000 (k/min) when it is supposed to achieve 4000. Without
this, I get loads of errors and commonly, complete failures esp.
during verify.
Try setting fdc_rate_limit=2000, or sum-such, against ftape in
/etc/conf.modules and see if the errors go away. The ftape
documentation describes the various parameters you might wish to
experiment with.
Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> > Sep 16 23:35:05 badger2 kernel: [036] ftape-write.c
> > (ftape_write_segment_R8a09c846) - write error, retry 1 (830).
>
> > Anything wrong with my cpio setup?
>
> No, bad tape. Try to reformat (the ditto 2Gb's cannot
> format, though) or try a new tape. You did clean the head of
> the tape drive?
>
> -Wolfgang
