ftape problems
I recently got myself a Seagate Tapestor3200 TR3/QIC 3020 tape drive. It works
fine under DOS, however when I try to backup anything in Linux, I get the
following errors:
May 28 19:43:36 whoever kernel: [047]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) -
write error, retry 1 (399).
May 28 19:43:46 whoever kernel: [048]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) -
write error, retry 1 (415).
May 28 19:44:42 whoever kernel: [049]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) -
write error, retry 1 (615).
I get tons of messages like this in my /var/adm/messages, and I hear the tape
start and stop moving all the time, instead of moving continuously as it does
under DOS. I tried using it with both zftape and ftape devices, but I still
get the same errors. I am using ftape-3.03 from sunsite. Is this a known
ftape-driver bug? HOWTO seems to imply that all drives conforming to QIC TR*
standards should work, and AFAIK, my model is pretty standard.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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