On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> 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.
I'd love to be able to put data on there at all. I haven't gotten that far
yet. Seems everything but I/O works.
> > 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?
Brand new (factory refurbished) iOmega Ditto Easy 3200. Head is pristine,
tape has been retensioned multiple times and multiple tapes have been
used. Tape drive was also tested out on a Windows 95 box with Ditto's own
tools (iOmega wouldn't support me unless it was tested on one of THOSE
systems) and the drive worked perfectly. Was able to back up directories
and restore them with no problems.
On the Linux side (RH 6.0, very fresh install), everytime I do an erase,
it SEEMS to erase the tape and then do a rewind. Once the rewind appears
to be over it displays an I/O error and then exits. The same thing happens
when I try to format it as well as when I send a tar directly to it.
This is totally bizarre. I have followed Douglas Bollinger's instructions
to the letter (even verifying that I have all device files with proper
major and minor numbers etc etc). The only thing I can get out of this
drive on a fresh RH 6.0 install is a retension and a rewind. It works
great on Windows 95 systems. mt -f /dev/qft0 also displays the proper
information as well. I am thinking it is something hysterically simple
that I am overlooking.
Can anyone think of anything I'm missing here??? Are there any tools to
get down and dirty with the bits and bytes flowing back and forth?
Thank you for your help! I assure you, when I get this working I will post
a detailed account of what it took!
-Chuck
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