Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:16:31 -0600 (CST) From: Font <font@Mcs.Net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Does "a" flag to dump work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980309220944.18306C-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
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I seem to recall (probably in one of Doug White's messages) hearing that
the "a" flag to dump (use end-of-media indication for tape changes) may
not have been working properly for some version of FreeBSD. Having just
written a long dump and gotten a write error on an almost-new tape, I
think this may be happening to me, but I want to make sure that it is or
isn't before doing a hardware inspection.
I'm running 2.2.5-R on a Pentium 120, AHA-2940UW, and WangDAT 3400DX, with
90 m DAT tapes. When I write many partitions to the tape with "dump 0auf
/dev/nrst0 /mymountpoint", I get a tape write error about 2 gigabytes into
the tape.
If the a flag is currently broken, then I may repartition new systems to
not have partitions greater than 2 gigabytes, or maybe I should just start
specifying the length for dump, too. Hmm.
If this is fixed in STABLE, I'd love to test it out, if anyone knows the
status (if it is a bug, and not just me).
dw
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