From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 10 16:23:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA08560 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA08475; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:22:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA15520; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:22:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA09393; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:15:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971211011508.60795@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:15:08 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: Allan Alford Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wangtek 51000HT 1/4" SCSI-2 QIC 1000 Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <348F0FB9.C6C@jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <348F0FB9.C6C@jump.net>; from Allan Alford on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 03:55:05PM -0600 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Allan Alford wrote: > Since it's a 1/4" tape, the concatenate and append flags on tar don't > seem to work. Trying to tar multiple directories fails as a result. > > Referencing the device as /dev/nrst0 does not seem to help either. How exactly do you do it? It works for me. > Dumping a 496meg file system reports that I need 10.2 tapes! Dumps defaults are stupid. Use `dump -a' instead (but beware, EOF detection is currently broken, there's an open PR for this). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)