This was supposed to be sent some hours ago but I didn�t get it back via the list up to now. So I think something went wrong. (Sorry if you receive this message twice.) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: In spite of helpful answers: FTape still refuses to work From: Onno Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wolfgang Weisselberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:27:17AM -0800> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 21:38 14.11.1999 +0100, you wrote: >Hi! > >Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced: >> Hello Onno, >> Sunday, November 14, 1999, 7:20:13 AM, you wrote: > >> OG> 2. In case the tape works there are fatal errors on many tapes: Sometimes >> OG> the drive attemps to write on the same position over and over as if the >> OG> tape were damaged and finally stops with a fatal io error. On some tapes >> OG> this happens immediately after starting the backup, on others after the >> OG> drive has worked for a while. > >[but they don't show up under DOS] Yes, I backed up, compared AND RESTORED successfully quite often there. There are also only few repositionings under DOS. >[tape has errors] I tried 5 of my tapes now. Three of them didn't work (above errors), two worked more or less (many repositionings or on second attempt). It seems the problem is caused by bad error handling by ftape: I bought a new tape and it worked perfectly. I think that ftapes error handling should be improved urgently. >> OG> 3. I downloaded ftape-tools (latest stable version). However ftformat does not >> OG> work. It tells something about unknown API. [...] >> OG> Upgrading to the latest unstable tools wasn't possible because they didn't >> OG> compile. [...] >That seems to be a problem local to your computer, but then I >may be completely wrong! So what can I do? Onno
