Paul Miller writes: > > I'm having trouble with Linux and my TR-3 tape drive. It's attached to > the floppy cable and I've tested it in windows. I compiled the ftape and > zftape modules in kernel 2.2.10 and loaded them fine. The tape drive is > detected with no errors. Taper seg.faults when it backs up though, yet, > taper will successfully quick format the tape. I tried using tar to write > directly to the tape device, and it said that it couldn't write to it. > Anyone have any thoughts on this problem?
I've got an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 that works fine. I think I was using taper for a while, but I decided that I'd rather stick with standard UNIX tools. Now I use tar, but the downside is that there's a bug in gzip that makes the tar/gzip combination difficult to use. I discovered a workaround that uses one of the files in /proc to determine when the device has been closed, and I incorporated that into my backup script, so now it works beautifully. What device are you using, /dev/qft0? You should doublecheck the permissions on that file if you're not root. Jesse -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
