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        Hi there,

        Actually I'm posting my problem, since I've tried everything I
        could (as far as I can see), so please don't flame me !

        The two problems I've got, are:
          1> Using my IOmega 250 Mb FTape streamer, by entering something
             like: 'tar cvf /dev/ftape *' makes the QIC-80 streamer awake
             for a few seconds (sort of retensioning) and then exits with:
                "I/O error"
             But: mt -f /dev/ftape rewind   (or retension) works

             I'm using kernel 1.1.51 and Ftape 1.1.13b (incl. patch)

             Everything compiles fine and insmod doesn't complain.

             Any hints ?

          2> I also have a QIC02 compatible streamer on another machine,
             also running 1.1.51, which has a controller attached to it.
             ( IO: 360, IRQ: 5, DMA: 1 ).
             If I issue a 'tar cvf /dev/rwt0', it'll only do start/stop
             writes and no streaming writes. This takes for ages to backup
             a few source files.

             Any hints as well ?

        Thanks for the information and have a nice day!

                Eduard.

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>        Hi there,

>        Actually I'm posting my problem, since I've tried everything I
>        could (as far as I can see), so please don't flame me !

>        The two problems I've got, are:
>          1> Using my IOmega 250 Mb FTape streamer, by entering something
>             like: 'tar cvf /dev/ftape *' makes the QIC-80 streamer awake
>             for a few seconds (sort of retensioning) and then exits with:
>                "I/O error"
>             But: mt -f /dev/ftape rewind   (or retension) works

>             I'm using kernel 1.1.51 and Ftape 1.1.13b (incl. patch)

>             Everything compiles fine and insmod doesn't complain.

>             Any hints ?

My failure to to that (clearly documented) step cause me trouble
for a while.

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>        Thanks for the information and have a nice day!

>                Eduard.