From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 23:01:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA04175 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 23:01:13 -0800 Received: from oregon.uoregon.edu (oregon.uoregon.edu [128.223.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA04170 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 23:01:10 -0800 Received: from btarr.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-160.uoregon.edu) by OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #13764) id <01HXHU7SAIEO8ZJ0XF@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 23:01:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 23:02:48 -0800 From: "Bryan J. Tarr" Subject: help with scsi tape X-Sender: btarr@oregon.uoregon.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HXHU7SBCK28ZJ0XF@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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