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by **Stefan Viljoe** » Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi,

I recently got the ftape4.04a tape driver from Claus Justus Heine for my
system. I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro tape drive on a Ditto Dash DX
accelerator card.

Interesting thing: it does not work under X! Meaning, I cannot issue tape
commands from a terminal emulator window. I have to restart in runlevel 3
and use it in normal console text mode.

Any ideas why this might be? Anybody else experienced this?

Thanks!

Stefan Viljoen

--
Starwars Forever!!!

http://home.intekom.com/rylan/

by **Oliver D. Bedfo** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> Hi,

> I recently got the ftape4.04a tape driver from Claus Justus Heine for my
> system. I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro tape drive on a Ditto Dash DX
> accelerator card.

> Interesting thing: it does not work under X! Meaning, I cannot issue tape
> commands from a terminal emulator window. I have to restart in runlevel 3
> and use it in normal console text mode.

I'm using an older version of ftape, so things might have changed.
I doubt that X is the reason. Perhaps in runlevel 5 some modules are not
loaded, try to load them by hand.

What error message do you get? What's in the logs?

Oliver

by **Stefan Viljoe** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> > Hi,

> > I recently got the ftape4.04a tape driver from Claus Justus Heine for my
> > system. I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro tape drive on a Ditto Dash DX
> > accelerator card.

> > Interesting thing: it does not work under X! Meaning, I cannot issue
tape
> > commands from a terminal emulator window. I have to restart in runlevel
3
> > and use it in normal console text mode.

> I'm using an older version of ftape, so things might have changed.
> I doubt that X is the reason. Perhaps in runlevel 5 some modules are not
> loaded, try to load them by hand.

> What error message do you get? What's in the logs?

Nothing - it just starts backspacing and forwarding the tape, apparently in
an infinite loop, when you try to read the first time under X in a terminal
window. Writing seems to work fine.

Actually, it is not such a problem as I just do "linux 3" at the LILO:
prompt when I need to backup.

Thanks for the reply!

Stefan

--
Starwars Forever!!!

http://home.intekom.com/rylan/

by **Andy Fo** » Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:00:00

>Hi,

>I recently got the ftape4.04a tape driver from Claus Justus Heine for my
>system. I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro tape drive on a Ditto Dash DX
>accelerator card.

>Interesting thing: it does not work under X! Meaning, I cannot issue tape
>commands from a terminal emulator window. I have to restart in runlevel 3
>and use it in normal console text mode.

>Any ideas why this might be? Anybody else experienced this?

>Thanks!

>Stefan Viljoen

>--
>Starwars Forever!!!

>http://home.intekom.com/rylan/

What error message do you get?

--
yours,
Andy

by **Stefan Viljoe** » Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> >Hi,

> >I recently got the ftape4.04a tape driver from Claus Justus Heine for my
> >system. I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro tape drive on a Ditto Dash DX
> >accelerator card.

> >Interesting thing: it does not work under X! Meaning, I cannot issue tape
> >commands from a terminal emulator window. I have to restart in runlevel 3
> >and use it in normal console text mode.

> >Any ideas why this might be? Anybody else experienced this?

> >Thanks!

> >Stefan Viljoen

> >--
> >Starwars Forever!!!

> >http://home.intekom.com/rylan/

> What error message do you get?

It goes into an infinite loop when I try to read anything off the tape.
Solution was to simply boot into runlevel 3 and leave X alone when wanting
to access the tape.

Stefan Viljoen

--
Starwars Forever!!!

http://home.intekom.com/rylan/

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Ftape does not work under X?

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Ftape does not work under X?

Ftape does not work under X?

Ftape does not work under X?