Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Brand new (factory refurbished) iOmega Ditto Easy 3200. Head is pristine,
> tape has been retensioned multiple times and multiple tapes have been
> used.
So clean that head :-)
Especially new tapes or new drives can still have residue in
them: the first time I cleaaned my (tape) head after getting
it new it was dirty, compared to many hours of operation.
> 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.
Ok, then it's no hardware problem.
> 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.
Hmmm... Do *recheck* which jumpers you put where on the
accellerator card and *recheck* that you use *these* numbers
on the ftape modules. Maybe Win uses different numbers ...
which happen to be 'right' (Windows might even re-distribute
IRQs or such stuff, if you do not use a jumpered accellerator
card, so these numbers may not be the ones you really need.)
> 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?
You can tune the debugging up to that point, IIRC.
> Thank you for your help! I assure you, when I get this working I will post
> a detailed account of what it took!
Just cut it down to the relevant points, I'd hate having
several MB of email to read. :-)
-Wolfgang
