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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Help with Exabyte Tape drive Date: 17 Jun 1997 08:58:13 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5o5jj5$6b2@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bc75ea$d830dfd0$76e989ce@cruella> <EBL2F9.n0A@news.interactive.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:7017 Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.spamthat.net> wrote: > :P~esmerelda# dump 0ufB /dev/nrst1 10000000 / > :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. He _is_ using the raw device (that's why nRst1), Chris. The Nrst1 supposedly means the non-rewind-on-close device. But you probably don't know what a QIC-3020 drive is either. :) It has nothing in common with serious tape drives... You gotta format your cartridges there in advance. So the `medium format corrupted' really means the medium is bad (at least, it needs to be reformatted). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j