On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Robert Goto wrote:
> The drive I am trying to get to work is an internal Iomega.
> After much trouble I finally got to the point where I can cat the tape.
> I think I am still doing something wrong since I cannot write to the tape.
> I get invalid argument.
> If I use the precompiled version.....I take it this is version 2.xx, I get
> an I/O error when I try to cat or dd the tape.
You need to write to the tape in 10k blocks by default - use
dd if=whatever of=/dev/ftape bs=10k
or
dd if=whatever of=/dev/ftape obs=10k
>
> What I am desperately in need of doing is to dd an Iomega 2 gig tape.
> Recomplile of kernel per various instructions given here work but I seem to
> be missing something as the compile works fine but I can't get the
> functionality.
Robie.
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Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
