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- From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Qic Tape Problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.130113.11210@camaro.uucp>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 13:01:13 GMT
- References: <725833070snx@weasel.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: camaro
- Lines: 53
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- In article <725833070snx@weasel.demon.co.uk> agc@weasel.demon.co.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.122015.129@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
- >>
- >> I have most of everything installed happily now for the QIC-02 dist 2c
- >> drivers, but the mt and mtreset commands keep coming back with
- >>
- >> mt: /dev/tape: Invalid Argument
- >>
- >> Anyone found this as well? Hennus! Help!
- >>
- >> --
- >>
- >
- >I get that too - I haven't a clue what's wrong.
- >
- >BTW - what are the correct mknod settings for a 250Mb drive?
- >
- >The 150 meg settings gave me a 'density minor bits have changed' error -
- >have you seen this? I made /dev/tape with mknod /dev/tape c 12 16,
- >and the error went away - but I don't know if it's right or not.
- >
- >It also sounds suspiciously like my tape controller is dead. Dammit!
-
- Mine is just a 60 meg, but I still get the 'density minor bits have
- changed' as well, almost as though the qic driver defaults to QIC-11 or
- something.
-
- I now have the tape driver rewinding, retensioning, and taptest worked for
- a little bit, but tar, cpio, forget it.
-
- So, mt and my card & Drive work, but I agree with you, I think the ioctl.h
- etc are out. I didn't use the old ones though, I used the new ioctl.h and
- file.h from 0.99p1, so there might be some subtle difference.
-
- Have you found the source for GNU's mt? I can't find it around...
-
- >
- >Cheers,
- >
-
- 'Hic....Whats this Reset button for...Hic....oops.....Hic'
-
- (God I hate New Years Parties...)
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