From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 10:14:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA02084 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:14:19 -0800 Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA02073 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:14:17 -0800 Received: from btarr.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-160.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.160]) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA05924 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:12:31 -0800 Message-Id: <199511151812.KAA05924@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-Sender: btarr@resnet.uoregon.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:15:56 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Bryan J. Tarr" Subject: help with SCSI tape Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It is a resend of my message, I haven't recieved any responses thus far and would like to do a backup at some point. Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide me. > I have a Connor Tapestor 4Gig SCSI tape drive. I just put 2.1.0-951104-SNAP on my Pent 120, with an Adeptec 2940 SCSI controller. I have tried using tar and dd to write to the tape, however it seem to stop working within writing 50 megs. I looked in the handbook the backup section and there was no information in there to help me with this problem. What is the proper way to backup to a SCSI tape? What could be the problem? > >I have used dd to write to the tape from /dev/zero and successfully written up to 200megs but it seems to fail when using tar and gzip compression. > Bryan J. Tarr Residence Network Assistant University of Oregon Housing