I put in another tape and it does the same thing. I'll try and get that
other info posted for you to look at.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robie Basak
To: Paul O'Neil
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/14/00 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: ftape-internal
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:22:32AM -0700, Paul O'Neil wrote:
> I have a HP Colorado T3000. I recently changed to a new motherboard
and
> reinstalled the Linux-Mandrake. I had ftape working fine before by
> recompiling the kernel without FDC support and no floppy. I tried
doing the
> same thing but now I'm not sure what's wrong. I can get status back
fine but
> when I try to mount the tape using kdat, it says "reading magic
string" and
> the tape moves for a couple seconds at a time repeatedly. here is my
dmesg
> attached.
This looks like one of two things to me. ftape reports media defects;
have you tried using any other media?
Otherwise, ftape complains of a lost interrupt (or so I think). While
kdat is busy moving the tape around, can you show us the output of:
cat /proc/interrupts
Of course, I may be completely wrong here :-)
For those who don't know, kdat saves a file at the beginning of the
tape which contains just a magic and a timestamp; this is what it is
trying to read.
Try typing:
dd if=/dev/ftape of=/dev/null bs=10k
and see if that complains, it should just exit normally if the tape is
"formatted" by kdat and is being read correctly.
Robie.
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Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
