From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 23:18:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6179314C83 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MarcW@Lanfear.com) Received: by akira.lanfear.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:20:57 -0800 Message-ID: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C22330549E5@akira.lanfear.com> From: Marc Wandschneider To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: dump -a Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:20:47 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bluagh! how good is the -a switch on the dump command? I've got a 12/24GB Sony 4mm SCSI DAT drive, and was wondering if I had to enter all the density/length commands, or if the dump command would figure it out on it's own. Under Linux, we had no such luck, but my recollection is that the various *BSD operating systems are much better at it. Any suggestions? Is there any good place to find out all the parameters for a tape drive, should they be required. I, unfortunately, managed to misplace all the info for my current drive. Thanks! marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message