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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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