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Subject: Re: "bad sblock magic number"
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, R. Scott Murphy wrote:

> 
> While attempting a dump to a (Iomega) Tape drive
> (ft0), I'm getting the message
> "bad sblock magic number"
> and the dump is aborted.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction
> to resolve this?  Thanks!

Dump your floppy tape and use SCSI. The ft driver supports QIC-40 and
QIC-80 tapes only, particularly the Colorado Jumbo series.

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