I've recently reinstalled my linux system SUSE 6.0 (Kernel 2.0.36) and have a TAR Tape I made with my old system which
was with the same Linux Veresion and Kernel
 
The problem is that I am unable with Ftape to reead my old tapes.
 
I have an Iomega DITTO 2GB and previously had FTAPE-3.04d which is the first version that supported IOMEGA 2GB.  When
that was installed everything worked fine with TAR commands.
 
After my reinstall I downloaded FTAPE-4.02  and was also able to save and restore files with TAR but unable to read the old tapes.
 
After reading the FINE manuals I saw that the compression feature has been dropped.  So I downloaded FTAPE-3.04d to see
if that would work.  I still can't read my old tapes.
 
The symptoms are that I do a "tar -tvf /dev/ftape" and all that comes back is the bash prompt as if the Tape is empty.  I also tried the
devices /dev/zqft0 and /dev/qft0 directly and the result is the same.
 
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try to access my old tapes??  I know that they are not empty and would really like
to get my stuff back.
 
Thanks
 
Andrew Potter 
 
 

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