Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... > > > 4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux? > > > No! That applies to the version of ftape which is included in the kernel. ftape-3.04d, which is installed as modules, has this capabi

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Raymond A. Ingles wrote: : > : > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > : > > On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: : > > >>> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? : > > : > > Sorry, I should have checked t

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > > >>> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? > > > > Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... > > > > 4.8. Can I format my tapes

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > >>> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? > > Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... > > 4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux? > > No! Actually, yes, t

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Ftape-3.04d includes the ftformat command. I have installed it from source, but there is now a .deb package, at least in hamm. The man page indicates it will format QIC-80 tapes, but I haven't done that. Bob On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > >> > >> Is there any wa

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't >>> feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to >>> 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. > > As far as I am aware then

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't >> feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to >> 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. As far as I am aware then you can not use Linux to format these tapes, this may of

Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. Thanks. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue