Hi, Jim!
Trying to kill the keyboard, Jim Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> without cc'ing him. I have Red Hat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20, ftape 3.04, and
> although I thought I'd solved his problem using mt -f /dev/rft0 setblk 0,
> it turns out that if the tape file is large enough, ftape does lose the
> location of beginning of tape still.
Hmmm ... BOT (begin of tape) is hardware-detected by a (series
of) holes in the tape. So that is probably not the reason ...
> Because of that, it says it cannot
> update the header, which is probably what he is seeing(??) ... I was using
> dd, not tar, in the case I have, and I may yet retry with straight tar, but
> I suspect he's seeing a general problem.
Unless you show us the complete error message and the output
in the syslog-files (e.g. /var/log/messages), we can but watch
the crystal ball ...
-Wolfgang
