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#! rnews 1874 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.180.128.35!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: WangDAT Model 1300 4mm tape woes? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:45:52 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3300F69F.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> References: <E5F0w2.3Fz@bugs.alisa.org> <E5F9HM.61r@bugs.alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-25-139.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 11 Feb 1997 22:45:51 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) To: "John J. Rushford Jr." <wjjr@bugs.alisa.org> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35332 John J. Rushford Jr. wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone is using a WangDAT Model 1300 4mm SCSI tape drive > for backups on FreeBSD? The tape drive is capable of writing 2GB to tape. > I'm trying to 'dump' a filesystem to tape which is far less that 2GB but, > 'dump' seems to think I don't have enough tape. Is there some configuration > file that I should edit and add the WangDATS parameters too for 'dump'. > > I'd appreciate any pointers, I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6. > > regards > -- > John Rushford > wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org > -- > John Rushford > wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org Try this /sbin/dump 0uBbf 2000000 32 /dev/nrst1 / /sbin/dump 0uBbf 2000000 32 /dev/nrst1 /usr Where 2000000 is 2GB for the size of the media. -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin rlb@mindspring.com, http://www.mindspring.com/~rlb/ GSU: gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu Home: 770-992-8877 ****************************************************************************