ftape vs. floppies

Robert Broughton (altnews@uniserve.com)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:57:05 GMT

My environment is:

Colorado 250 tape drive
FC-20 controller
kernel 2.1.126
ftape and zftape configured as modules

Whenever I insmod ftape and zftape, and create a backup, any future
attempts to access the tape drive result in:

tar: Only wrote 4096 of 10240 bytes to /dev/fd0
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

rmmod'ing ftape and zftape doesn't help; The only way to get out
of this is to reboot.

I can reproduce this problem easily. Just tell me what would be
useful in the way of strace output, or whatever.

-- 
"I am a law abiding citizen, its the law that makes me a criminal!"
	-sschnurr@home.com


Bob Broughton
mailto:roberb7@uniserve.com
WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~roberb7
Vancouver, BC, Canada


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