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ftape I/O errors

Post by John Bre » Thu, 26 May 1994 02:09:41



I am running ftape .10a, Linux kernel 1.0, libc 4.5.21 with a Colorado 250 tape
drive (on a Northgate 486/33 with an ATI VGA Ultra+ video board).  Lately (over
the last few months or so), I've run into a problem with writes and reads to the
tape.  For example, I may be in the middle of a 'tar cvf /dev/ftape /' when the
ftape driver will kick out an 'unrecoverable I/O error' message.  At one time
or another in the past, I have been able to write the entire tar file to tape.

What is this due to?  I notice that I can generally get more on the tape
if I give a 'mt -f /dev/tape reten' command just prior to the tar
command.  Is this a physical problem with the tape or drive?  Is it
a software problem?

Thanks for any advice.

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1. ftape-2.02 build error: ftape-read.c:621 `VERIFY_WRITE' undeclared

Any ideas?

 cc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -O6
-DVERIFY_HEADERS -DFDC_BASE=0x370 -DFDC_IRQ=9 -DFDC_DMA=3 -D__KERNEL__ -DKERNEL -DLINUX -c fdc-isr.c
cc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -O6 -DVERIFY_HEADERS -DFDC_BASE=0x370 -DFDC_IRQ=9 -DFDC_DMA=3 -D__KERNEL__ -DKERNEL -DLINUX -c ftape-rw.c
cc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -O6 -DVERIFY_HEADERS -DFDC_BASE=0x370 -DFDC_IRQ=9 -DFDC_DMA=3 -D__KERNEL__ -DKERNEL -DLINUX -c tracing.c
cc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -O6 -DVERIFY_HEADERS -DFDC_BASE=0x370 -DFDC_IRQ=9 -DFDC_DMA=3 -D__KERNEL__ -DKERNEL -DLINUX -c ftape-read.c
ftape-read.c: In function `_ftape_read':
ftape-read.c:621: warning: implicit declaration of function `verify_area'
ftape-read.c:621: `VERIFY_WRITE' undeclared (first use this function)
ftape-read.c:621: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ftape-read.c:621: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [ftape-read.o] Error 1
kadath:/usr/local/packages/ftape-2.02#

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