Re: Travan TR-3 tape drive woes
Taper has been alternately stable and broken for some time now. I've
been using tob on both slink and potato with good results for a few
years.
Bob
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:22:43PM -0700, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> AFAIK the taper in slink has been segfaulting on quite a few people. I
> THINK the taper from potato will work without problems under slink, but
> I'm not sure. I know that taper WAS working for me around march of this
> year.
>
> BTW, I was using taper to write LS-120 disks and syquest carts. Haven't
> used floppy tapes for years now, and taper's likely updated in potato
> since I used it, so YMMV.
> But I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the taper you're using.
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
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