On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:11:55AM +0100, Piotr Szeptynski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Sebastian Hohn wrote:
>
> ->Hi,
> ->I have big trouble with my Iomega Tape Drive. It works fine with Win 95,
> ->but I do not want to use Win 95 any longer.
> ->When I do small backups like these described in the ftape HowTo it work
> ->very well with Linux. But when I try to backup my system data (at about 900
> ->MB in the first try), backup seems to work. But when try to verify the Data
> ->I get Input/Outpu Errors after a while.
> ->I tried tar, cpio and afio, they all show the same behaviour, so I think it
> ->must be the ftape driver!
>
> I had the same problems for three weeks. I found out it's processor's power
> problem. I have P166 and it seems to be too slow for Ditto Max. I'm going
> to give it back to supplier or change for another device.
Do you know where you found that info? I'm getting tons of I/O errors
when I backup (so many that 'messages' filled the disk and my machine
just about wet itself. luckily linux doesn't crash even when you do
stupid things). My primary machine is a P90, so I'd like to have
another excuse to upgrade ;) (not that linux doesn't run like a champ
on a P90, but I like to ray-trace).
Rob
