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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:31 PM

Hi,

I am running a slackware 10 on some older hardware. Recently, I installed a
floppy-tape I got. The tapeunit worked with an old 1.x-kernel. No matter
how I try, I cannot read the tapes on the new system. This is what I've
done:

- loaded modules ftape and zftape
- mt retension (works)
- dd if=/dev/ftape of=/dev/null returns with a "permission denied" (I am
root!)
- From the read-me, I understand that a solution would be to position at the
beginning of tape.
- mt rewind seems to work (activity on the tape-unit and no error messages)
- however, the read from the tape still returns permission denied
- mt fsf 1 produces ioctl-errors

Does anyone still have an ftape running and/or can antone tell me how to get
the tape-unit working?

Laurent-jan

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:32 PM

On Feb 21, 6:49 am, Laurent-jan <blobb...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a slackware 10 on some older hardware. Recently, I installed a
> floppy-tape I got. The tapeunit worked with an old 1.x-kernel. No matter
> how I try, I cannot read the tapes on the new system. This is what I've
> done:
>
> - loaded modules ftape and zftape
> - mt retension (works)
> - dd if=/dev/ftape of=/dev/null returns with a "permission denied" (I am
> root!)
> - From the read-me, I understand that a solution would be to position at the
> beginning of tape.
> - mt rewind seems to work (activity on the tape-unit and no error messages)
> - however, the read from the tape still returns permission denied
> - mt fsf 1 produces ioctl-errors
>
> Does anyone still have an ftape running and/or can antone tell me how to get
> the tape-unit working?
>
> Laurent-jan

Where'd you find ftape? Did you already have it? I, too, installed a
floppy-tape but it seems all the links I found were broken for
"ftape".

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:32 PM

winston19842005@yahoo.com wrote:

> On Feb 21, 6:49 am, Laurent-jan <blobb...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running a slackware 10 on some older hardware. Recently, I installed
>> a floppy-tape I got. The tapeunit worked with an old 1.x-kernel. No
>> matter how I try, I cannot read the tapes on the new system. This is what
>> I've done:
>>
>> - loaded modules ftape and zftape
>> - mt retension (works)
>> - dd if=/dev/ftape of=/dev/null returns with a "permission denied" (I am
>> root!)
>> - From the read-me, I understand that a solution would be to position at
>> the beginning of tape.
>> - mt rewind seems to work (activity on the tape-unit and no error
>> messages) - however, the read from the tape still returns permission
>> denied - mt fsf 1 produces ioctl-errors
>>
>> Does anyone still have an ftape running and/or can antone tell me how to
>> get the tape-unit working?
>>
>> Laurent-jan
>
> Where'd you find ftape? Did you already have it? I, too, installed a
> floppy-tape but it seems all the links I found were broken for
> "ftape".

Yeah, I know. Also all of the documentation that you might find is out of
date.

The ftape I got was on the Slackware 10.2-CD. There is a 4.04-version on
http://www.sourcefiles.org/Backup/

It seems it is not maintained anymore.

ljm

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