From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jul 12 16:13:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF02537B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6CND8S62912; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:13:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jim Bryant Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddity with dump(8) or sa(4) in -current In-Reply-To: <3B4E2BE3.F92F44C6@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: > [subscribing to FreeBSD-scsi as I type this] > > `mt status` shows "variable" as the default, and I am not specifying a > blocksize to dump. Below is an example of how I am doing this, and all > other partitions use the same options. > > /sbin/dump -0 -a -n -u -f /dev/nsa0 / > > On a side note, what happened to the "raw" device nodes [/dev/*rsa*]? I'm guessing that the lack of "raw" nodes doesn't make a diff, > as /dev/*sa* are all character-mode devices. No, all devices are block devices now. Linux has no raw, FreeBSD has no cooked. Feh. Okay- I'll try and chase this down again. It's really time for me to pay attention to sa(4) again. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message