From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 08:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09893 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spook.navinet.net (spook.navinet.net [206.25.93.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09864 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from forrie (black4.navinet.net [206.25.93.80]) by spook.navinet.net with SMTP id LAA08210 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809101505.LAA08210@spook.navinet.net> X-Sender: forrie@206.25.93.69 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:55:37 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Tape drive and DUMP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to get a decent system dump on tape with FreeBSD-2.2.7-STABLE. Using the same tapes that I use in my Solaris system, I perform: /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/rst0 /usr/local But for some reason, it thinks the tape is very small. I have 4.0gig-capable tapes. I've tried specifying the tape length (feet) and that doesn't make a difference. Dump will indicate something like 49.x tapes required for the dump of /usr/local which is less than 2gig :) The tape drive info is: Present Mode: Density = 0x24 Blocksize variable Comp 0 ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable I've looked at the manpage for st and mt and I've not been able to gleen any info about this. This is a 4mm tape drive. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message