Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:57:42 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: Marc Wandschneider <MarcW@Lanfear.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump -a Message-ID: <199911140957.KAA33193@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:20:47 PST." <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C22330549E5@akira.lanfear.com>
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Marc Wandschneider writes: > 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. > I have the same tape drive and always use the -a switch with it. It's always worked quite well for me. I've also used it with an older DAT drive (lower capacity) and it works there too. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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