From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 14:09:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23365 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:09:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tribunal.seqlogic.com (ip34.birmingham.mi.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.226.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23351 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsecor@seqlogic.com) Received: from spaceball1 (spaceball1.seqlogic.com [10.0.0.2]) by tribunal.seqlogic.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA16381; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:12:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsecor@seqlogic.com) Message-ID: <05b301be051a$a27de200$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Reply-To: "Richard Secor" From: "Richard Secor" To: "David Kelly" Cc: Subject: Re: Tape Drive Compression Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:05:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Update..... it was wokring with compression a bit (25% more on a tape) under the sgi settings.... however i couldn't read back from any tape at all with the sgi setting..... i changed back to default for now to try and do a backup..... now i get the everyloveing message that tells you that the end of media has been reached but as usual (especially since i started using antything greater than 2.2.6 or below 3.0-current) it doesnt ask for another tape..... this is REALLY bad..... i need to back all this data up..... even if it takes me 200 tapes i need it baked up.... (oh sorry meant backed not baked.....) snyone else experiance this strange annoyance?-=Richard Secor Sequential Logic=- -=Richard Secor Sequential Logic=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message