Re: ftape and errors
On Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:47:54 PDT Ken Gaugler (keng@wco.com) wrote:
> During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages:
>
> Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046] ftape-write.c (write_segment)
> - warning: 1 hard error(s) in written segment.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is there a procedure under Linux to scan the tape and refresh or
> update the bad sector map? No manpages here for ft or ftape.
The very latest (beta) ftape does formatting/verifying under linux.
Have a look at:
http://samuel.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/ftape-page.html
Phil.
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