From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 3 03:07:03 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA15018 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 03:07:03 -0800 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA15010 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 03:07:01 -0800 Received: from starkhome.UUCP (root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id GAA04990 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 06:04:16 -0500 Received: by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.9/1.34) id FAA02321; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 05:19:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 05:19:18 -0500 From: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Message-Id: <199501031019.FAA02321@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: Sherman F Mui Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Sherman F Mui's message of Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:40:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: floppy tape backup, how? Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> I guess I'm supposed to use dump to do these backups, but shouldn't this >> thing work anyway? > >Hi, me again (yay), > >I tried dump, it paniced again: > >dump 0usfd 400 /dev/ft0 43690 /dev/sd0a > >And it locks up all of my input devices (mouse & keyboard), I didn't notice >that before. Oh, by the way, I am using "ft" happily with a Colorado 250MB drive. - Gene Stark