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by **Adam** » Mon, 31 May 1999 04:00:00

Again, thanks for the help. For all who haven't followed, I have just
installed a colorado 250MB floppy controller tape drive on a P166 running
redhat 5.0. I have tried to back up to it using tar, and, having gotten
the right switches in the command line, I get this error:

Quote:>tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive /dev/ftape: Input/output error
>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>Broken pipe

I thought that it might be bvecause the tape needs formatting, but using
mkfs yields the same error. Advice?

Thanks,

Adam J

by **Frank Mil** » Tue, 01 Jun 1999 04:00:00

>Again, thanks for the help. For all who haven't followed, I have just
>installed a colorado 250MB floppy controller tape drive on a P166 running
>redhat 5.0. I have tried to back up to it using tar, and, having gotten
>the right switches in the command line, I get this error:

>>tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive /dev/ftape: Input/output error
>>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>Broken pipe

>I thought that it might be bvecause the tape needs formatting, but using
>mkfs yields the same error. Advice?

You don't make a file system on a streaming tape device!
Before you go further, I'd recommend that you do some serious doc-reading.
Try checking out (if you don't already have the documentation):
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/

-frank

[my recollection is that others have recommended tob, afio, taper...
you might want to look into these]

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