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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TDC 4200 and FreeBSD
Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:13:39 +0100
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Saad M. Waraich <waraich@li.net> wrote:
>I am trying to use a 2GB QIC tape drive, (Tandberg 4200) with FreeBSD-current
>and I was wondering if someone could help me with some problems that I've
>been having.
>
>1) dump(8) runs out of tape very quickly. I can't dump a 250 meg partition
> even on three (150m) tapes. However I'm sure this is not a problem
> related to my tape drive but rather concerns dump itself. Somehow I
> need to tell it what kind of tape/drive I'm dumping on.
dump 0uBf 2000000 /dev/rst0 /usr
^^^^^^^
size of your tape in kilobytes
You might want to increase the block size however for better
performance:
dump 0ubBf 32 2000000 /dev/rst0 /usr
to write in 32-KB-blocks.
--
cheers, J"org
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