Hi Neil,

> This setup, with worked nicely with ftape-4.x-09_11_1999, fails
> with the, newly released, ftape-4.03.
> 
> Everything appears ok until the completion of writing a backup and
> execution of a "ftmt -f /dev/fqft0 rewind" command.
> 
> At this point, log entries of the following form start to appear:
> 
>   ftape-rw.c (ftape_start_tape) - panic: location not known.
> 
> Thereafter, the tape drive light just blinks and eventually afbackup
> mail's the root user saying the tape drive isn't ready.

Is this repeatable, i.e., please re-install ftape-4.x-09_11_1999 and
verify that the stuff works again, then install ftape-4.03 and verify
that things still do not work.

Claus



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