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From: Sherman F Mui <smui@sparta.sjsu.edu>
Subject: ft problems
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Hi again,

I thought I had everything working with my new tape drive. =) I was dead 
wrong. I get this  error when the tape runs out of tape,

ft0: unrecoverable write error on block 3200

I'm probably not doing something right here. I have a 200 meg tape. I 
tried 'dump usfd 400 - 43690 /dev/sd0a | ft' then 'dump ufd - /dev/sd0a | 
ft'. And my root partition is ~15mb.

So I think maybe it's dump. I tried 'tar zvcf - /usr/local | ft 
"/usr/local save"', which is ~77 mb.

(side note: I can't get tar's -X option to work right, it just refuses to 
exclude a directory I specify)

Now what's wrong? Oh, and ft is going nuts and refuses to die. I have to 
reboot to make it stop winding  and re-winding my stupid tape...

	Thanks in adv,
	Sherman (off to reboot)