Doug,
I experienced a similar effect with my newly-repaired Ditto Max.
The log messages were identical albeit ftape finally gave up with an
error code which ultimately produced Input/Output error.
How did I fix it?
1) Put ft_tracings=0,0,0,0,0 into /etc/conf.modules
It seems the act of reporting ftape operation can affect ftape
on slow systems.
2) Execute swapout 16 before the first tape operation which causes
the ftape modules to be auto-loaded.
3) Perform backups after re-cycling power on the PC
Probably only applicable to Iomega controller cards (they do seem
to get confused at times).
N.B. Don't forget, with ftape you should be using ftmt not mt.
HTH,
Neil Darlow.
On 03/08/00, 05:26:55, Douglas Beeson wrote:
> I am having trouble getting 4.04a to work properly with my Iomega Ditto
> 800 Insider. All I/O-related commands seem to make the tape drive
> "shoeshine", and cause "overrun" error messages to appear in
> /var/log/messages.
> The command "mt -f /dev/nqft0 retension" works great, so I know
> (believe) ftape is installed correctly.
