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From: wjjr@bugs.alisa.org (John J. Rushford Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: WangDAT Model 1300 4mm tape woes?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 02:54:36 GMT
Organization: My Place on the Front Range
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Ron Bolin (rlb@mindspring.com) wrote:
: 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

: 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.

Thanks!  This worked.

regards
-- 
John Rushford
wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org