From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:54:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20968 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA20962 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA14432; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:53:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05310; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:51:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970312005115.DG04591@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:51:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: toj@gorilla.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Subject: Re: Floppy drive References: <331B6598.39B8@primenet.com> <199703080537.WAA09723@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199703112322.RAA03095@peeper.jackson.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703112322.RAA03095@peeper.jackson.org>; from Tom Jackson on Mar 11, 1997 17:22:00 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Jackson wrote: > In the process of moving from ide to scsi I wanted to eliminate the floppy > tape drive and use my new ezflyer scsi disk drive (like a scsi *Zip*) to > do dumps. Tried `dump 0uaf - (fs) | gzip | dd conv=osync >(or >>) > /dev/[r]sd3. This works for one dump within the one disk cartridge but not > for multiple dumps to one cartridge (disk) and the sense for end-of-media > to tell you to change tape (disk). Multiple dumps overwrite each other and > going to the end of the disk aborts the dump. Of course, you can't do it there. Disks don't support the notion of different `tape files' or `tape extents'. -- 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. ;-)