Re: ftape problems

1997-06-01 Thread Bjoern Starke
On Wed, 28 May 1997 18:28:03 -0400, you wrote: >I can't really comment on your specific problem as ftape is working >fine for my Iomega Ditto 800. I think the messages indicate that there >were write errors on different segments of your tape but the retries >succeded. You could try to format your

Re: ftape problems

1997-05-29 Thread Igor Grobman
Thanks for your response! I tracked the problem down to ECC failures. Here is what happens: first time after format, the ftape gives ECC failures, but taper (the app I was using) told me that it saw unknown data, and asked me if it should overwrite it... before I made the connection between the E

Re: ftape problems

1997-05-28 Thread Christian Meder
On May 28, Igor Grobman wrote > 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