Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:51:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@flash.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111271448560.22773-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3C03961A.2060109@flash.net>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Speaking of Exabyte drives, I [am trying to :-)]use the 8500 [no > compression] but.............. > can't get it to stream, after trying many permutations [and a couple of > days] of possible commands. > > I've also erased the [new] tape, cleaned the drive with an Exabyte > cleaning cartridge, changed the cable, etc. > > BTW, an Athlon 750mhz w/256MB ram, AHA1520 card. I realize this is a low > end card but it has worked in another machine OK. The drive is almost > unused since new and appears to work satisfactorily other than no streaming. > > I've read the dump, st, and buffer man pages and the st page in > particular documents the driver functionality in extremis [for only a > user :-)] nevertheless it is clear that there are many, many > potentially troublesome variables that it seems to me only a proficient > C programmer with lots of time and a real good working knowledge of > things SCSI could probe. > > The command I'm using is............... > dump 0ub 64 /<dir> | `buffer -s 16k > /dev/tape` I've just looked twice at this and blinked. Why have you surrounded the command with backquotes? That will run the buffer command and use the output of that command as a command line to pipe the output of dump into. ls -l / | `echo cat` -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk YKYBPTMRogueW... you try to move diagonally in vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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