This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Tue Jun 4 03:00:35 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23049 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:52:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.9.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA15105; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:30:32 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154511-10990>; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:20:46 -0500 Received: from van6d25.dial.uniserve.ca ([204.244.163.184]:3894 "EHLO venn.bc.ca" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <156364-10990>; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 17:07:24 -0500 Received: (from altnews@localhost) by venn.bc.ca (8.9.1a/8.7.3) id XAA02960; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:57:05 GMT Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:57:05 GMT Message-Id: <199901022357.XAA02960@venn.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 From: altnews@uniserve.com (Robert Broughton) Subject: ftape vs. floppies To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu My environment is: Colorado 250 tape drive FC-20 controller kernel 2.1.126 ftape and zftape configured as modules Whenever I insmod ftape and zftape, and create a backup, any future attempts to access the tape drive result in: tar: Only wrote 4096 of 10240 bytes to /dev/fd0 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now rmmod'ing ftape and zftape doesn't help; The only way to get out of this is to reboot. I can reproduce this problem easily. Just tell me what would be useful in the way of strace output, or whatever. -- "I am a law abiding citizen, its the law that makes me a criminal!" -sschnurr@home.com Bob Broughton mailto:roberb7@uniserve.com WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~roberb7 Vancouver, BC, Canada - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/