[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape Backup Question

[Carter B. Bennett]

Yes George I have, and when I do a "lsmod ftape" It showes me ftape.
Isn't telling me support is there?

At 11:09 AM 08/17/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>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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