Travan TR-3 tape drive woes
Paul Miller writes:
>
> I'm having trouble with Linux and my TR-3 tape drive. It's attached to
> the floppy cable and I've tested it in windows. I compiled the ftape and
> zftape modules in kernel 2.2.10 and loaded them fine. The tape drive is
> detected with no errors. Taper seg.faults when it backs up though, yet,
> taper will successfully quick format the tape. I tried using tar to write
> directly to the tape device, and it said that it couldn't write to it.
> Anyone have any thoughts on this problem?
I've got an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 that works fine. I think I was using
taper for a while, but I decided that I'd rather stick with standard
UNIX tools. Now I use tar, but the downside is that there's a bug in
gzip that makes the tar/gzip combination difficult to use. I
discovered a workaround that uses one of the files in /proc to
determine when the device has been closed, and I incorporated that
into my backup script, so now it works beautifully.
What device are you using, /dev/qft0? You should doublecheck the
permissions on that file if you're not root.
Jesse
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