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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:15:08 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Allan Alford <aa@jump.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wangtek 51000HT 1/4"  SCSI-2 QIC 1000
Message-ID:  <19971211011508.60795@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <348F0FB9.C6C@jump.net>; from Allan Alford on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 03:55:05PM -0600
References:  <348F0FB9.C6C@jump.net>

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As Allan Alford wrote:

> 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.

How exactly do you do it?  It works for me.

> Dumping a 496meg file system reports that I need 10.2 tapes!

Dumps defaults are stupid.  Use `dump -a' instead (but beware, EOF
detection is currently broken, there's an open PR for this).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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