From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 23:45:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA08660 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:45:32 -0700 Received: from aero.org (aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA08654 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:45:31 -0700 Received: from antares.aero.org ([130.221.192.46]) by aero.org with SMTP id <111105-3>; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:44:57 -0700 Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA07204 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 95 23:44:56 PDT To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: QIC-80 for backups - is this right? Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:44:54 -0700 From: "Mike O'Brien" Message-Id: <95Apr18.234457pdt.111105-3@aero.org> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got a Colorado Memory QIC-80 "floppy tape" drive, which I bought to do backups. I'm now wondering if it's time to sell it and get something else! I'm trying to get an epochal dump of the root, just to try things out. I'm doing: # dump 0fbB - 64 2650 /dev/rsd0a | ft It's been running for hours. It steps the tape for quite awhile in tiny jerks that I can't believe are really streaming the tape, then it'll do a long forward-and-reverse motion, then back to tiny jerks. Is this normal? Is this an indication that the ft0 driver needs serious help? Should I throw this thing off a pier and dump over a thousand bucks into SCSI tape? What's going on here? Mike O'Brien