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I am having trouble running ftape with a Colorado "Jumbo" 250 on a
Gateway P90 system.  I'm running ftape-1.13b on kernel 1.1.54 (right
off the recent Slackware v2.2 distribution).

It seems to work fine with short files, but after writing longer tar
files to the tape, I get:

  tar (child): can't write to /dev/nftape : I/O error

This is particularly troubling since I am running an identical tape
unit configuration on a Gateway P60 (using the older Slackware v2
distribution) with no trouble at all. Note that the P90 system gave
the same error with the v2 distribution as it does with the v2.2
distribution (in fact, ftape was the motivating factor behind the
upgrade).

Anyone have any advice? I've noticed that the RELEASE-NOTES in the
ftape-1.14 distribution contain the comment:

  BTW: Are there people running ftape on Pentium bases systems ? I've read
       a lot of problemreports and suspect the pci/isa bridge. Can anybody
       confirm/deny this (Please report configuration) ?

is this the problem I'm running up against? (but both of my systems
are PCI). (I couldn't get 1.14 to compile; so I really am running
ftape-1.13b).

-alberto

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: is this the problem I'm running up against? (but both of my systems
: are PCI). (I couldn't get 1.14 to compile; so I really am running
: ftape-1.13b).

Systems with PCI do seem more prone to problems with ftape, but not all of
them have problems.

As for 1.14, it _should_ just compile, assuming that you have a recent
kernel. The most recent ftape version is 1.14b (which, as of 23-Nov-94, still
resides in /pub/Linux/Incoming.)

Daniel

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