Hi,
I've had similar problems with ditto max. ftmt reset helped. Also, clean
the drive frequently.
Best Regards,
Mark Wilson
P. Kay Associates Ltd.
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Nathan Heagy wrote:
> We are having recuring problems with shoeshining. Our tape is a iomega
> ditto max, and it runs off and on. It has been working for months, but now
> it will not. We get errors from cron that say the drive, as /dev/nqft0, is
> in use. Sometimes this is becuase a tar thread will not properly exit for
> days. Sometimes the modules will not unload (even when the tape is rewound
> and ejected) and a system reboot will fix it (this is a server, reboots
> are hell). Right now, if I issue a 'ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 status' it will
> shoeshine until I kill the process. It has gone overnight like this.
>
> In conf.modules, I have this:
>
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape -f ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none \
> ft_tracings=3,3,3,3,3
> options zftape -f ft_major_device_number=27
> options ftape-internal -f ft_fdc_fc10=0 ft_fdc_mach2=0 ft_fdc_base=0x200 \
> ft_fdc_dma=0 ft_fdc_rate_limit=3000
>
> I have tried with ft_fdc_rate_limit of 2000,3000,4000 to no avail.
>
> Our cron is this:
>
> ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind
> ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 reten
> ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind
> tar czf /dev/nqft0 / -X /exclude.backup.txt
>
> and the exclude excludes /proc/* /dev/* and /tmp/*
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
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