On Apr 16, Richard Reina wrote:
> I am trying to get my HP COLORADO 8gbe up and running. I am running
> Redhat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.18
>
> I followed the instructions from torque.net/parport/paride.html
>
> insmod epat
> insmod pt
> ./mkd
>
> everything to go fine.
>
> but when I try
> #fdisk pt0
A tape is no harddisk, you can't partition or mount it. AFAIK the
only operatins allowed on paride tapes are write (e.g. with tar) and
rewind.
> I changed the permision:
> #chmod 666 /dev/pt0
>
> and then tried:
>
> #tar cvzf /dev/pt0 /home/richard
(You shouldn't use "z" since a single bit error at the beginning of
the archive makes the whole archive unreadable)
> the system cycles through all the files in /home/richard but the ends
> with:
>
> tar (grandchild): /dev/pt0: Cannot write: Read-only file system
> tar (grandchild): error is not recovereable: exiting now
Have you checked the record marker on the tape? Does it work under
windows? Maybe the sensor that detects the record marker is dirty.
Jochen
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