Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) From: Sherman F Mui <smui@sparta.sjsu.edu> To: Fred Cawthorne <fcawth@squid.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ft problems Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9501040859.B12915-0100000@sparta.SJSU.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9501041511.AA18922@squid.umd.edu>
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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
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