From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Dec 10 14:06:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA23504 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from mail.jump.net (serv1.jump.net [204.238.120.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23499; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aa@jump.net) Received: from rat by mail.jump.net (8.8.8/jump.1.11) id PAA20656; Message-ID: <348F0FB9.C6C@jump.net> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:55:05 -0600 From: Allan Alford X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org CC: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Wangtek 51000HT 1/4" SCSI-2 QIC 1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy! This is my first post to either of these lists, so I hope this is the right place for this kind of thing. I recently purchased one of the above-mentioned drives and put it into an external SCSI cabinet. I also bought a 1.2 Gig QIC-1000 tape (the largest the manufacturer recommends). Now I'm having problems putting this thing to good use. Since it's a 1/4" tape, the concatenate and append flags on tar don't seem to work. Trying to tar multiple directories fails as a result. Referencing the device as /dev/nrst0 does not seem to help either. Dumping a 496meg file system reports that I need 10.2 tapes! Tarring the same file system works just fine however. Can anyone offer any help? Is it normal that I would need to mess with the density and feet settings on dump? Is it normal that tar would use the tape correctly while dump wouldn't? Most importantly: How do I get the tape to accept multiple dumps and/or tars? I can't seem to set it to no rewind. Also, how do I access the details of this "Rogue's Gallery" that I keep seeing reference to in the man pages? Thanks for any and all help, Allan Alford