Still having troubles formatting and writing to the tape.........
Thanks for the help, again. I used the ftformat command suggested by
Tim Jones
and the results are included below.
Please note my tape is not write protected as indicated in the
message below.
[root@localhost /root]# ftformat --mode=auto --format-parameters \
qic-standard=TR-3 --omit-erase --discard-header
Warning: Write protected cartridge!
Calibrating tape length ... got 1090 segments
--format-parameters qic-standard=0x83,format-code=4,floppy-head-max=53,\
floppy-track-max=254,segments-per-track=1090,tracks-per-tape=50,gap3=248,\
format-filler-byte=0x6d
Writing reference bursts ... done.
Formatting track 49, segment 54499
Error re-opening tape dev read/write: Device or resource busy
# Here's ftape's output
#Tried again using ftape-tool with the same tape and a new tape with the
#following results on both tapes:
#---stdout "messages"-------
ftformat -f /dev/nrawft0 --mode=auto --omit-erase --discard-header
--format-parameters=qic-standard=0x83
found qic-standard=0x83, value 0x83, symbolic QIC-3020/WIDE
found format-code=4, value 4, symbolic variable
found floppy-head-max=53, value 53, symbolic 53
found floppy-track-max=254, value 254, symbolic 254
found segments-per-track=1087, value 1087, symbolic 1087
found tracks-per-tape=50, value 50, symbolic 50
Unable to close ftformat pipe
#---end of stdout-------------
#---ftape "messages"---------
Calibrating tape length ... got 1087 segments
--format-parameters qic-standard=0x83,format-code=4,floppy-head-max=53,
floppy-track-max=254,segments-per-track=1087,tracks-per-tape=50,gap3=248,
format-filler-byte=0x6d
Writing reference bursts ... done.
Formatting track 0
[snip)
Formatting track 49
Error re-opening tape dev read/write: Device or resource busy
#---end of ftape "messages"---------
When trying: tar -cf /dev/rawft0 letter.txt
the following errors are printed:
tar: Cannot write to /dev/rawft0: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Hopeless,
Michael Shimko
