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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:02:44 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   dump/tape problems
Message-ID:  <199604161302.IAA02207@bsd.tseinc.com>

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On 2.1-stable, we just installed an HP C1533 SCSI 4mm dat. To test the
setup, I did a 'find / -depth -print|cpio -ovc > /dev/rst0' and then a 'cpio
-it < /dev/rst0'. All looked great. However, I'd like to use the dump
command. So... I did a 'dump 0uf /dev/rst0 /' and all appears ok, but within
3 minutes or so it says 'mount volume 2'. This seems strange to me, as the
lowest capacity possible with the drive is 2gb and my entire hard drive is
1.6gb (I'm only using about 300mb). What am I doing wrong?

On a slightly different topic; I jumpered the drive to do hardware
compression without host control. I did this because I thought freebsd might
have problems sending commands to tell the drive to do compression. If I
change the jumper to host controlled hardware compression, how does freebsd
know whether to write with compression or not (hopefully under operator
control)? I've seen other unix variants that use different device files for
this. What's the fbsd equivalent?

Any help or pointers appreciated!

Jay West





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