From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 13:34:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA01824 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA01817 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caught.inna.net (caught.inna.net [206.151.66.7]) by tyger.inna.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10578; Thu, 16 May 1996 16:36:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:33:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold To: "Paul T. Root" cc: Jamie Bowden , questions@freebsd.org, root@inna.net Subject: Re: HP Tapedrive In-Reply-To: <199605161300.IAA10979@astro.acs.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 May 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > > and am wondering about hp's cool (not) little toggle switches on the > > bottom....I need settings for those, if anyone can supply them. mt is > > returning totally invalid desity codes for the tape drive, and I really > > need to run backups on this machine soon. HP gives settings for sun, > > dec, and hp, but not pc...the scsi adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW. Any > > help is appreciated. > > Use the sun setting. I have that very drive and it works quite well. Okay. Switched to the sun setting. mt -f /dev/rst0 status returns : Present Mode: Density = X3B5/88-185A Blocksize variable ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 2: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable running a dump 0uf /dev/rst0 / returns : DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 16 16:19:50 1996 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rst DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 30299 tape blocks on 0.78 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 31084 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s) DUMP: level 0 dump on Thu May 16 16:19:50 1996 DUMP: Closing /dev/rst DUMP: DUMP IS DONE This is with a 2gig ( 90meter ) tape in drive. What bit of stupidity are we commiting? :-) +-----------------------------------------------+ : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : : An ISP serving the Virginia Middle Penninsula : +-----------------------------------------------+