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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: HP DAT Tape drive
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Administrator Blair wrote:

> 
> I have a HP 6000E DAT Tape drive.  It's recongnized upon startup, and I can manage it via mt.  The only problem is dump.  When I run the dump program with the command line:
> 
> dump 0uf /dev/st0ctl.0 /usr/home
> 
> I get the error 'DUMP: bad sblock magic number'.  I can use the tape
> drive fine with tar.  Any ideas? 

Is /usr/home a separate filesystem?  You must dump entire filesystems, not
pieces.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major