From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 4 08:54:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA26466 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:54:20 -0800 Received: from isc.sjsu.edu (sparta.SJSU.EDU [130.65.3.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA26460 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:54:15 -0800 Received: by isc.sjsu.edu (4.1/25-eef) id AA13578; Wed, 4 Jan 95 08:51:05 PST Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) From: Sherman F Mui Subject: Re: ft problems To: Fred Cawthorne Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9501041511.AA18922@squid.umd.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Jan 1995, Fred Cawthorne wrote: > BTW, what's a 200 meg tape?? Is it a long dc2120 or something??? > remember that alot of these people like to quote compressed capacities > for their tape drives. A normal "250" meg drive is really 120 meg, > etc... It's actually a 200 meg tape, uncompressed. I think it's a new drive by conner that uses QIC-WIDE format and is 420 compressed. Maybe this is the problem. But the Windows software it comes with says it's a QIC-80... > Ok... the ft driver does automatic volume switching... You don't need > to tell dump anything about the length of the tape, etc... > (This is a good thing, since when doing compressed backups, you can't > know how much will fit on the tape and you must otherwise guess...) > ft will prompt you to put in a new tape when the end is reached. > (It opens /dev/tty to interact with you, so the pipe won't get messed up > even) Hmm, I tried dump without specifying the tape length, same thing. > I have successfully used dump and restore with a colorado "250" meg tape > drive, both compressed and uncompressed. A lot of people have said this one works well. Maybe I should exchange 'em. Does it come with a 3 drive floppy ribbon? I've had to disable my 5.25" floppy. > Hmmm. Don't know about this one, I always use dump since I like the > interactive mode (: Interactive mode? > Yeah... There was something in the source about this bug being fixed, but > somehow I don't think so... > I have seen this when I tried to use a bad tape. Try another one. > (I even reformatted it successfully, but it still didn't work right) > I just tried a new preformatted tape and it worked fine... Hmm, I'm thinking it's my drive that's not really compatible. Sherman