Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
>
> > As nobody replied on my blinking led problem post to this list, here
> is
> > the bug report. I really hope someone is going to fix this in both the
> > 3.x and 4.x series of the ftape driver. The 3.x series is in the 2.2
> > kernel series, and I hate having to be forced to hand-build ftape
> > drivers because the current drivers are to _new_.
> >
> > In the 2.0.x kernel series, I used my T3000 tapedrive without any
> > problems. When I switched to the 2.2 kernels, things broke. I thought
> > this was due to hardware errors, dirty tape heads, or my own mistakes,
> > especially since no one mentioned any problems with this drive on any
> > website or in the FAQ.
> >
> > However...
> >
> > As I now figured out, the problem isn't my tapedrives but the ftape
> > driver. Both the 3.x series and the 4.x series don't work, while the
> > 2.08 series work without any problems at all.
> >
> > The problem is as follows:
> >
> > When I put a tape in the drive for the first time, things are just
> fine.
> > I can tar to the drive, test the tar files, restore, (re)wind the
> tapes.
> >
> > But when I pull the tape out of the drive, the led starts blinking and
> > the tapedrive doesn't work anymore. I put a tape in the drive, and it
> > doesn't start winding it as it normally does. I do mt status and this
> is
> >
> > wat I get:
> >
> [snip]
>
> Have you considered using the ftape-tools (i.e., ftmt) instead of the
> regular ones? They are designed to work with the rest of the
> ftape suite/
>
> > --
> > Jean-David Beyer .~.
> > Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
> > /( )\
> > Registered Linux User 85642. ^^-^^
> >
I also have this problem, It only seems to happed if I use a floppy.
It's
got so bad that I've removed the tape drive from my box all together...
Mike Lincoln
