Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:43:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jason Hudgins <jason@www.dancooks.com>, Rob Nelson <rob@mag-net.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dump with a DAT Message-ID: <19980226094328.48933@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225160028.21439A-100000@www.dancooks.com>; from Jason Hudgins on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 04:01:21PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980225134824.8415B-100000@mag-net.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225160028.21439A-100000@www.dancooks.com>
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On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 16:01:21 -0600, Jason Hudgins wrote: >>> 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.. =( Unfortunately, the tape driver currently returns an I/O error indication when it hits end of tape. They're working on it, but it's more complicated than it appears. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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