ftape rewinds my FLOPPY instead of my Travan tape!

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From: Geert Machtelinck
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:00

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Hi all!

I have just installed ftape-2.08 to be able to use my Seagate Travan Tape
with my brand new PC, on Linux, ... of course. 

So, I installed everything according to the installation files from
ftape-2.08, including inserting the ftape.o module with insmod and so on.

The next thing to do is to test the beast by trying to rewind a tape.
after typing:

mt -f /dev/ftape rewind

... I hear a zoom sound coming from my PC, so I'm happy... :-) However,
the LED from my Floppy lits! :-| He tries to rewind the floppy! nogo. :-(

What is wrong?

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From: gm@sas.be (Geert Machtelinck)
Subject: ftape rewinds my FLOPPY instead of my Travan tape!
Date: 1997/03/13
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