On Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:05:26 EDT "Susan G. Kleinmann" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Does taper implicitly call 'mt'? > > Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it > is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array > of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm > strongly convinced that tob is the way to go. It is a shell script which > uses well-tested utilities to do the I/O, it's got a robust archive > system, and excellent (clear) documentation. Give it a try. BTW, I've experienced complete system lockups when using ftape-2.09 with kernel 1.2.14. This happens whenever reading or writing to the tape. Trying to use zftape-1.05 gives kernel Ooops. Anyone have these working ? Phil.
