From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 12:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26378 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from 208.16.24.125 (pn8-ppp-125.primary.net [208.16.24.125] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA25852 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET (unverified [204.238.179.111]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Wed, 06 May 1998 14:17:06 -0500 Received: by PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET with Microsoft Mail id <01BD78F9.5ADA7CE0@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET>; Wed, 6 May 1998 14:15:00 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD78F9.5ADA7CE0@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET> From: "J.A. Terranson" To: "J.A. Terranson" , "'Doug White'" Cc: "Abraham J. Stephens" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:14:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---------- From: Doug White Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 1:03 PM To: J.A. Terranson Cc: Abraham J. Stephens; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. Importance: High On Tue, 5 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. >You have to dump entire filesystems. Amend this to >dump 0af /dev/rft0 / >and you'll be off and running. (Note the addition of 'a' so that it will >try to fill the tape first and not rely on the silly tape size defaults.) Well, we're getting *closer* ;-) # dump -0af /dev/rft0 /var DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed May 6 14:09:37 1998 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0s1e (/var) to /dev/rft0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 552 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: write error 20 blocks into volume 1 DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") y DUMP: Closing this volume. Prepare to restart with new media; DUMP: this dump volume will be rewritten. DUMP: Closing /dev/rft0 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: write error 20 blocks into volume 1 DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") n DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. # This happens with every tape I've tried... (No, they arent write protected, and yes, they are known good tapes...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message