Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net> To: Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy tape backup Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970208221615.21334A-100000@wakko.gil.net> In-Reply-To: <E59oDI.4xs.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Mark Hannon wrote: <SNIP> > I would recommend that you use QIC80 tapes in the drive and see if > it works. I have a Conner420R but it will only work with standard > QIC80 tapes and not with the QIC-wide style tapes. > > Rgds/Mark Thanks for the suggestion Mark, Tried it this afternoon - negative. The drive won't even give the damn thing a tweek. the system just sits there. I did finally try something using tar and ft: Besides the numerous timeouts I got FT0: unrecoverable write error on block 3264 since I don't see anyway to specify a lenght or tracks or density with ft I have no idea for a solution ( did try dump with parameters to no avail). I don't even seem to have a way of checking if anything was saved (even though the tape drive whired and buzzed.) At the above error the console freezes up (except for the continuous - Timeouts) and I finally have to reboot to get it back. I can't even kill the ft process from another console??? Thanks for the time - I think I'll give up on this one (until I can afford a SCSI tape unit that is supported - sometime next century ;) ) Keith keithl@wakko.gil.net _________________________________________________________________________ Laugh it up while you can, monkey boy. - John Warfin (Dr. Emilio Lazardo) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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