Ftape freezes the system.
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:05:26 EDT "Susan G. Kleinmann"
(sgk@sgk.tiac.net) wrote:
> > Does taper implicitly call 'mt'?
>
> Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it
> is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array
> of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm
> strongly convinced that tob is the way to go. It is a shell script which
> uses well-tested utilities to do the I/O, it's got a robust archive
> system, and excellent (clear) documentation. Give it a try.
BTW, I've experienced complete system lockups when using ftape-2.09 with kernel 1.2.14. This happens whenever reading or writing to the tape.
Trying to use zftape-1.05 gives kernel Ooops.
Anyone have these working ?
Phil.
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