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From: Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.spamthat.net>
Subject: Re: Help with Exabyte Tape drive
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:25:57 GMT
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Michael D Pries <mpries@pcpros.net> wrote:
:P~I have a 1 Gig Exabyte Tape drive (SCSI) in my BSD 2.1 server. I have been
:P~using MC3000XL tapes purchased through Exabyte and they have been working
:P~fine, I have purchased a new box and when trying to dump I get the
:P~following:
:P~esmerelda# dump 0ufB /dev/nrst1 10000000 /
:P~ DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jun 10 17:04:46 1997
:P~ DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
:P~ DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0a (/) to /dev/nrst1
:P~ DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
:P~ DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
:P~ DUMP: estimated 7919 tape blocks on 0.00 tape(s).
:P~ DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
:P~st1: media error: medium format corrupted
:P~ DUMP: End of tape detected
:P~st1: media error: medium format corrupted
:P~st1: media error: medium format corrupted
:P~ DUMP: Closing /dev/nrst1
:P~st1: media error: medium format corrupted
:P~ DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
:P~ DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") n
:P~ DUMP: Do you want to abort?: ("yes" or "no") y
:P~ DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
:P~I have a feeling it is because the tapes are QIC-3020 formatted. Is there
:P~anyway to reformat these tapes for use with dump?
Shouldn't you be using the raw device for dumps? I generally
use /dev/rst0 on my 8gig Exabytes without incident.
Chris
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