Taper has been alternately stable and broken for some time now. I've been using tob on both slink and potato with good results for a few years.
Bob On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:22:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK the taper in slink has been segfaulting on quite a few people. I > THINK the taper from potato will work without problems under slink, but > I'm not sure. I know that taper WAS working for me around march of this > year. > > BTW, I was using taper to write LS-120 disks and syquest carts. Haven't > used floppy tapes for years now, and taper's likely updated in potato > since I used it, so YMMV. > But I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the taper you're using. > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > I'm having trouble with Linux and my TR-3 tape drive. It's attached to > > the floppy cable and I've tested it in windows. I compiled the ftape and > > zftape modules in kernel 2.2.10 and loaded them fine. The tape drive is > > detected with no errors. Taper seg.faults when it backs up though, yet, > > taper will successfully quick format the tape. I tried using tar to write > > directly to the tape device, and it said that it couldn't write to it. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this problem? -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
