From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 22:14:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au (mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au [150.101.12.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D45151DB for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:14:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au) Received: from hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au ([150.101.69.17]) by mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16920; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:44:55 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <36F8823B.B2C3266A@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:42:11 +1030 From: Ian Moore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey , Mailing List Free BSD Questions Subject: Re: Using dump with a DAT References: <36F81CD5.C5E6AB25@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> <19990324150415.W425@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24 March 1999 at 9:29:33 +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to dump to a Seagate CTD4004R-S 4/8Gig DAT drive on a server > > running 2.2 STABLE & am having problems when the end of the tape is > > reached. Using -u does not work. > > Do you really mean -u? Sorry! no, what I meant to write was -a. > > I found this in the mailing list archive: > > > >> On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 16:01:21 -0600, Jason Hudgins wrote: > >>>>> I have a Seagate DAT that I've been dumping backups too. The DAT is > >>>>> supposed to have a 4 gig capacity (uncompressed) when writing to a 120m > >>>>> tape. Can anyone PLEASE tell me the proper density/tape length to get > >>>>> 4 gigs out of this thing? So far I've been using a density of 61000 and a > >>>>> length of 6000, which will store about 2 gigs..and works fine, but I > >>>>> REALLY need to get 4 gigs out of it...or at least 3. > >>>> > >>>> Try using the -a option and drop the length and density options. If your drive > >>>> reports EOM properly it should work just fine. > >>> > >>> I've tried that.. it doesn't work.. it just hits the end of the tape and > >>> the bugs out with write errors.. =( > >> > >> Unfortunately, the tape driver currently returns an I/O error > >> indication when it hits end of tape. They're working on it, but it's > >> more complicated than it appears. > >> > >> Greg > > > > I'm wondering if this problem has been solved yet?! > > Hmm. It would have helped if you had included the date and the name > of the sender in your quote, Here is the header: Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:43:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Hudgins , Rob Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dump with a DAT Message-ID: <