[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape Backup Question

[George E. Lass]

Carter,

Have you tried re-building your kernel with ftape support turned on?
You can find this option under "character devices" (at least under RH4.2
you can)

George

Carter B. Bennett wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I have a Iomega Easy 800 floppy tape drive installed on my computer. I have
> in Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2 been able to use the:
> 
> mt -f /dev/ftape rewind
> 
> But now in RH 6.0 the message:
> 
> /dev/ftape: No Such Device
> 
> is returned. I have also tried "nftape" with the same results.
> I am doing this as "root" user. Also nftape yealds the same results.
> 
> In the /dev dir nftape & ftape are links to nrft0 & rft0:
> 
> ftape - > rft0
> nftape - > nrft0
> 
> both ftape & nftape have permissions of : lrwxrwxrwx
> both rft0 & nrft0 have permissions of : crw_rw____
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is something broken?
> 
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