From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 03:55:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A09C16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from expresso.netweaver.net (expresso.netweaver.net [217.151.99.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23AB443D39 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: (qmail 26468 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2003 12:56:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.1.184) (chris@chrishowells.co.uk@213.78.127.207) by 0 with SMTP; 24 Dec 2003 12:56:00 -0000 From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:54:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 References: <200312240451.hBO4pdf0001269@typo.org> In-Reply-To: <200312240451.hBO4pdf0001269@typo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312241154.48375.howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: DAT drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:55:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:51, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: > I just picked up a (used) surestore C1533A (thats an HP device) and am Same here. > having some problems getting it work quite right. I've got the dip switches > set correctly (I was able to find at least 3 corroborating pages for that) > but can't manage to get it to write correctly. It will only write about > 50 megs using 0a as dump flags. Trying to specify -B and estimating > compression got me to about 200 but it's a 4 gig drive. All it wants to > do is write a few blocks, sit and sputter for a second or two, write a few > more, (repeat for about 15 minutes) and then tell me it's at EOM well > before it should be. I had a vaguely similar problem. When I first got the drive (second hand) I tested it in a P150 test machine running OpenBSD 3.4. It seemed to work very nicely there. I had some problems when I put it into my FreeBSD server though. It didn't seem to want to write more than 100MB or so even though I thought I was using the correct commands etc. Eventually though i came up with the following backup script and it works nicely... Might be worth trying, though it looks like you're using the correct command already... dunno. #!/usr/local/bin/bash echo "Starting the backup" for fs in $FILESYSTEMS do $DUMP -0au -f $NTAPE $fs done echo "Rewinding the tape" $MT -f $TAPE rewind echo "Ejecting the tape" $CAMCONTROL eject sa0 - -bash-2.05b$ cat /root/backup.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash NTAPE="/dev/nrsa0" TAPE="/dev/rsa0" MT="/usr/bin/mt" DUMP="/sbin/dump" CAMCONTROL="/sbin/camcontrol" FILESYSTEMS="/ /var /backup" echo "Rewinding the tape" $MT -f $TAPE rewind echo "Starting the backup" for fs in $FILESYSTEMS do $DUMP -0au -f $NTAPE $fs done echo "Rewinding the tape" $MT -f $TAPE rewind echo "Ejecting the tape" $CAMCONTROL eject sa0 I'm using FreeBSD 4.9. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/6X6IF8Iu1zN5WiwRAs+iAJ9XEE1G8FPT2GSeaVjjJyqPmIZ7ywCeOnPP 5JJUdGkDlQLkx4fBYZznbfw= =RKjU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----