Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Tape & Dump Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031227000.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <372AC99A.C17@sympatico.ca>
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On Sat, 1 May 1999, Jim Chapman wrote: > I have been struggling trying to get an ATAPI tape drive to work. I have > found that the command > tar -cf /dev/rwst0 <file> writes to the tape and the command > tar -xf /dev/rwst0 <file> reads the file back and cmp says they are > equal. > > The problem seems to be with dump. The command > dump -0af /dev/rwst0 / writes to the tape, closes the drive, rewinds the > tape and then tries to send a command to the drive. The man page for wst > says that closing the drive will rewind the tape and unmount the drive. .. and it did. > Is this a problem with dump or is there something I need to do? I don't see any problem. Be more specific. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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