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"Shane P. McCarron" <ahby@themacs.com> writes: > > At 12:39 AM 2/9/97 +0100, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > >Mike Wangsmo <wanger@mcn.net> writes: > > > >> Should I be using a newer ftape than that of the one included with the > >> kernel? I just got the tape drive last week, so I am kind of unfamiliar > >> with everything related to the tape stuff. I also see that using mt, I > >> can't position a tape in the Colorado T3000 tape drives. ANys suggestions > >> here? > > > >Yes, please try to use ftape-3.02 (see the http address contained in > >the signature). Your tape drive still may not work, but I'm interested > >in whether that `unknown tape format' error message vanishes with the > >new version. > > Actually, the ftape driver 2.10 seems to work fine with TR-3EX tapes. > However, 3.02 fails miserably because the capacity of the tape is greated > tha 31 bits and the registers in the driver are ints. Claus, I think that > you mentioned an update to this that you are wokrking on? The update is nearly finished. I hope to make a snapshot of it available soon. (and soon will it be even sooner that an update will be released soon ...) Cheers Claus -- Claus-Justus Heine claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de http://samuel.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus PGP Public Key: http://samuel.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/claus-public-key.asc Ftape - the Linux Floppy Tape Project WWW : http://samuel.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape Mailinglist: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu Newsgroup : linux.dev.tape [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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