RH9: formatting a DDS tape

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09-21-2003, 12:23 PM	#1
cleaner416 LQ Newbie Registered: Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Rep:	RH9: formatting a DDS tape I am running RH9 on a Dell box with a PowerVault DDS SCSI tape drive. Everything seems to working fine ... the hardware is recognized correctly and I can run the mt command. But.... How do I format a tape? I tried the mt erase command but that just hung. I googled around a bit and saw that I could format with an ftformat command if I install ftape. However I can't get ftape to build after several frustrating attempts. Doesn't seem worth it for one command. What am I missing? Thanks in advance!

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