From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 5: 9:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from audio.gfoster.com (66-61-185-186.mf.cox.rr.com [66.61.185.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A95D37B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gfoster@localhost) by audio.gfoster.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IC9hB96483; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:09:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gfoster) From: Glen Foster MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15310.50823.310756.591794@audio.gfoster.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:09:43 -0400 To: Tomas Palfi Cc: "FreeBSD. ORG (E-mail)" Subject: Quantum 7000 In-Reply-To: <15310.50283.575252.497988@audio.gfoster.com> References: <99A83EE8C34AD311809C009027936117144B49@dell-serv-1.phoenixmedical.co.uk> <15310.50283.575252.497988@audio.gfoster.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG // AAarrgh! It's early, I should have waited for the coffee to perc // before I posted, now I have to reply to my own post, yuch! Unless, of course, it is a SCSI drive, a fact which I over-looked when I sent my last, then you need to do: # /sbin/dump -0au -f /dev/rsa0 / and forget about the rast0 device which is for ATAPI tapes. Sorry for the bad advice, Glen Foster Glen Foster writes: > Tape devices customarily have "r" prepended to their names. You > dumped to a file named /dev/ast0 rather than to a device. Do this: > > # rm -rf /dev/ast0 > # /sbin/dump -0au -f /dev/rast0 / > > You should have your dump. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message