From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 20:16:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01640 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01622 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:16:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from font@Jupiter.Mcs.Net) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (font@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA11625 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:16:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (font@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA18976 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:16:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:16:31 -0600 (CST) From: Font To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Does "a" flag to dump work? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to recall (probably in one of Doug White's messages) hearing that the "a" flag to dump (use end-of-media indication for tape changes) may not have been working properly for some version of FreeBSD. Having just written a long dump and gotten a write error on an almost-new tape, I think this may be happening to me, but I want to make sure that it is or isn't before doing a hardware inspection. I'm running 2.2.5-R on a Pentium 120, AHA-2940UW, and WangDAT 3400DX, with 90 m DAT tapes. When I write many partitions to the tape with "dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /mymountpoint", I get a tape write error about 2 gigabytes into the tape. If the a flag is currently broken, then I may repartition new systems to not have partitions greater than 2 gigabytes, or maybe I should just start specifying the length for dump, too. Hmm. If this is fixed in STABLE, I'd love to test it out, if anyone knows the status (if it is a bug, and not just me). dw A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers font to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM. @ mcs.net Wishes are like dishes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message