Re: Update --> Re: Almost there...

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Once I get the error my prompt comes back, but the drive light won't go
> off. It seems like the only way I can get it to go off is to do a rewind 
> ( mt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind ).

That's a feature.  Ftape needs(!) to update the 'directory',
which is the header at the begin of the tape.  If you remove
the tape without the update, your data would never ever be
found again.

> Does anyone have any recommendations as to what is going wrong and/or how
> to fix it???

Head is cleaned, tape has been retensioned?  Other tape?

-Wolfgang