Re: QIC-80 formatting problem

[Claus-Justus Heine]

Hi Eliphas,

> > Did you try to format a cartridge? Mikes problems could be cause by a
> > bug in the formatting code. 
> 
> yes, when I bought the tape drive I formatted all 9 cartridges without any
> errors. IIRC, the kernel was 2.2.5, if this matters.

Doesn't matter.

> I'll format one tape at home with the current kernel, 2.2.16, to see if
> this occurs here.

No need. There indeed was a problem, but only when formatting tapes
with unreadable header-segments (or when running ftformat with the
"--discard-header" option).

There was a buffer overflow caused by some intialized variables. Fixed
in ftape-tools-1.09.

Thanks for testing.

Claus


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