Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> As nobody replied on my blinking led problem post to this list, here is
> the bug report. I really hope someone is going to fix this in both the
> 3.x and 4.x series of the ftape driver. The 3.x series is in the 2.2
> kernel series, and I hate having to be forced to hand-build ftape
> drivers because the current drivers are to _new_.
>
> In the 2.0.x kernel series, I used my T3000 tapedrive without any
> problems. When I switched to the 2.2 kernels, things broke. I thought
> this was due to hardware errors, dirty tape heads, or my own mistakes,
> especially since no one mentioned any problems with this drive on any
> website or in the FAQ.
>
> However...
>
> As I now figured out, the problem isn't my tapedrives but the ftape
> driver. Both the 3.x series and the 4.x series don't work, while the
> 2.08 series work without any problems at all.
>
> The problem is as follows:
>
> When I put a tape in the drive for the first time, things are just fine.
> I can tar to the drive, test the tar files, restore, (re)wind the tapes.
>
> But when I pull the tape out of the drive, the led starts blinking and
> the tapedrive doesn't work anymore. I put a tape in the drive, and it
> doesn't start winding it as it normally does. I do mt status and this is
>
> wat I get:
>
[snip]
Have you considered using the ftape-tools (i.e., ftmt) instead of the regular ones?
They are designed to work with the rest of the
ftape suite/
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