Hi, Michael!
Trying to kill the keyboard, Michael Gersten ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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You use ftape 3.04d, on a 2.0.xx kernel, right? It's unknown
to me wether 3.4 will run OK on a 2.2.x kernel. If it does not
work OK, you'll want to try a ftape snapshot from the *unstable*
directory (Kernel API changed, so 4.x won't even compile).
Don't worry about the "unstable", they are fairly stable.
> After doing a dump (by tar) to /dev/nrft0, and (several hours later,
> in the morning) doing an mt rewind, (and hearing the 7 passes at
> the start of the tape), the tape appears empty; 'mt seod; mt tell'
> reports block zero, 'less -f /dev/tape' reports empty.
> (yes, /dev/tape is symlink'd correctly).
You might try ftmt instead of mt, ftmt is optimized for floppy
tapes. Also, IIRC floppy tapes count *from the beginning of
a file*, not from the beginning of the tape. Try ftmt status
to see in which file you are.
You'll also want vtblc, to read and modify the index at the
beginning of the tape.
> Version 3.04d, redhat 6.0.
Uh, here in Europe RedHat is not the leading Linux distributor,
so please excuse me not knowing your kernel.
-Wolfgang
