Hi, Jim!
Trying to kill the keyboard, Jim Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
produced 2,3K in 62 lines:
> Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > Trying to kill the keyboard, Jim Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > produced 6,4K in 143 lines:
> After this thread was well under way, I used ftape 2.08 to write the
Urgs! 2.08 is 4+ years old, so that's probably the same as
using Windows 2.0 ... from which grave did you dig that old
software, and how come the bits did not get eaten by worms?
> same archive directly from tar to tape under kernel 2.0.36. It worked
> fine. Whatever is going on appears to be new under ftape 3.04, OR
> related to use of dd, since I got the same error twice at the same point
> with that combination under kernel 2.2.12.
As I said earlier: 3.04d is for kernel 2.0.x, if you mix it
with 2.2.x you might get unpredicted results! Use the newest
*unstable*, as 4.0[23] won't even compile on 2.2.x,
> I did find the following comment in the ftape HOWTO under Iomega Ditto
> Tape Insider 3200 (my drive):
I thought that drive didn't even work (properly/at all) under
2.08. Hmmm. Or was that the accellerator card?
[Drive catching up with dd and rewinding instead of pausing]
That should probably not have anything to do with dd but
probably could happen with any other method, too. You'll just
have to be faster than the tape to keep it nicely streaming!
I used dump/restore piped through "buffer -k10k" and some more
options and it worked well (apart from fast-forward/backward)
under 3.04d.
-Wolfgang
