From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 13:56:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04398 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.dancooks.com (jason@www.dancooks.com [204.180.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04191 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@www.dancooks.com) Received: from localhost (jason@localhost) by www.dancooks.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA21455; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:01:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jason@www.dancooks.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:01:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Hudgins To: Rob Nelson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dump with a DAT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have a Seagate DAT that I've been dumping backups too. The DAT is > > supposed to have a 4 gig capacity (uncompressed) when writing to a 120m > > tape. Can anyone PLEASE tell me the proper density/tape length to get > > 4 gigs out of this thing? So far I've been using a density of 61000 and a > > length of 6000, which will store about 2 gigs..and works fine, but I > > REALLY need to get 4 gigs out of it...or at least 3. > > Try using the -a option and drop the length and density options. If your drive > reports EOM properly it should work just fine. I've tried that.. it doesn't work.. it just hits the end of the tape and the bugs out with write errors.. =( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message