Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-10 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Hi Dan -- You said: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) This is a QIC3020 Travan tape drive, connected to

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-08 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Dan -- You said: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) ... Open up your case, and see what cable its attached too... Only use FTAPE if its hooked up through

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-06 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) Take a look at the SCSI - Tape Howto. Hope this points in the right direction. Open up your case, and see what cable its

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-06 Thread tandem
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) Take a look at the SCSI - Tape Howto. Hope this points in the right

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) Take a look at the SCSI - Tape Howto. Hope this points in the right direction. QIC-3020 (and the related Travan TR3) drives

Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-05 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
Ok, i need to back up that 9GB disk drive. My system has an Eagle(Exabyte) tape drive. The cartridge has TR3 on it. 95 seems to save files to a tape. I can retension the tape by mt -f/dev/ftape retenstion, but when I try to erase or save something to the tape, I get: mt: /dev/ftape: I/O

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-05 Thread Guy Maor
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, i need to back up that 9GB disk drive. My system has an Eagle(Exabyte) tape drive. The cartridge has TR3 on it. 95 seems to save files to a tape. I can retension the tape by mt -f/dev/ftape retenstion, but when I try to erase or save

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-05 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
On 5 Nov 1996, Guy Maor wrote: Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, i need to back up that 9GB disk drive. My system has an Eagle(Exabyte) tape drive. The cartridge has TR3 on it. 95 seems to save files to a tape. I can retension the tape by mt -f/dev/ftape retenstion,

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-05 Thread Guy Maor
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I used tar -cvpzf/dev/ftape. /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I will install taper and try it. If if I/Os with tar, I doubt it will work with taper. This may seem like a stupid question, but did you recompile your kernel and say yes