From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 14:01:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08411 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08403 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA11835 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:01:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA25597 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:01:25 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15637 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:01:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19981105230125.A15599@sr.se> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:01:25 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: dump and Tandberg QIC drives Reply-To: flygt@sr.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there anyone out there familiar with dump? I have a Tandberg MLR-drive that installes beautifully by FreeBSD. The problem is with dump. It seems that it wasn't written for drives that can do 16GB on one tape. If I try to make a backup of 500MB I get a īcalculationī from dump that it should take 52.36 tapes to make this backup. So I changed the density parameter to the value given by Tandberg 67700BPI. I get a better value. Now I need only 2.54 tapes to make my backup. There is not enough parameter setting to use with big tapes, as far as I can see. The default tape length is 2300 feet. my tape is only 1500 feet, but can still host 16GB. Does anyone know? -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message