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From: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
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Subject: bad sblock
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I am issuing a command like 

dump 0b 512 /dev/st0 (have varried the block size) and keep getting 
errors or aborts like the following...

DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Nov  1 15:05:17 1997
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/st0 to /dev/rmt8
  DUMP: bad sblock magic number
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.   

What am I doing wrong?



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