Hello John,
On Jul 17, Laurence John Oliver wrote:
> [...]
> At this point I start thinking that I've made it - BUT, then I try to
> use one of my backup programs (KDAT, Taper, etc.) to try and USE
> /dev/pt0 as my backup device and nothing happens - although another tail
> -f /var/log/messages reveals this:
>
> laptop Kernal: pt0: Unimplemented ioctl 0x801c6d02
Yes, the paride tape device doesn't implement all functions. AFAIR it
only supports reading/writing and the ioctl "rewind". So you probably
have to do it the hard way, using "tar". From
http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html:
The pt driver for parallel port ATAPI tape drives is a minimal
driver. It does not yet support many of the standard tape ioctl
operations.
> I would also be grateful for ANY tips re: software to use with the tape
> drive IF I get it working/etc. -
Use some low level tool like tar or cpio.
> I've had major problems trying to get
> FTAPE/FTAPE-TOOLS to even RECOGNIZE the tape drive
Yes that can't work; it is an IDE tape drive, not a FLOPPY based tape
drive. The external case contains an IDE controllor, while FTape can
only communicate with a floppy controller.
Jochen
