Summary: | kde-base/kdat-3.4.0 fails to mount a tape unless it is first formatted. | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jason McGuiness <gentoo-bugs> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jason McGuiness
2005-05-19 05:24:22 UTC
Err, "mount a tape"? Well, I Err, "mount a tape"? Well, I´m no expert on tapes but these are NOT block devices, so you cannot mount them... In the kdat GUI, the only way one can enable the backup facility is to "mount" the tape using that option in the GUI. Notwithstanding your comments, the naming convention used by the GUI for the naming of the actions it has stands, even if it may be questionable... ;) Unless the "mount action" is done, you can't backup. So that would make the program ... errm ... useless?! Thus it is vital to the functionality of the program to be able to perform the "mount action" on the tape, even if it is not really "mount /dev/st0 /mnt/tape", which you point out is incorrect, and not get hung up on the terminology they used. Hmm, OK - let Hmm, OK - let´s mount character devices with KDE, maybe we will get Kinux instead of Linux one day. Meanwhile, I´d suggest using some actually working utils, like tar. Unfortunately kdat is not actively maintained and these problems are frequent, e.g.: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72232 We cannot do much to help. *** Bug 93195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 93197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |