On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:18:32AM +0100, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> 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?
Actually, the ftape driver included in the 2.2.x source is 3.04d, just
as 2.08 is included in the 2.0.x source. I've used the built-in 3.04
in 2.2.x kernels with a Ditto Insider 3200, but it is somewhat
unreliable, although I don't know how much of this is due to the drive
itself. I also used the built-in 2.08 with this drive and the
accelerator card, but 3.04 was better under 2.0.x kernels. I've also
noticed that the performance was somewhat a function of what backup
software I was using (tob, which uses afio, seemed to work fairly
well).
Bob
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