Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:14:58 -0500 From: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. Message-ID: <01BD78F9.5ADA7CE0@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET>
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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...)
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