From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 1 00:17:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12421 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 00:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.wgn.net (mail.wgn.net [207.213.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12416 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 00:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from almazs@wgn.net) From: almazs@wgn.net Received: from laptop (du545-pcap-nca01.wgn.net [207.213.7.37]) by mail.wgn.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id AAA01110 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 00:17:04 -0700 Message-ID: <35C2C040.3CC5@wgn.net> Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 00:14:08 -0700 Reply-To: almazs@wgn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-NSCP (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dump on Archive DAT drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to test my new Archive Phyton DAT drive with FreeBSD and everytime I tried the following: /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/src I get the error message: DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: the ENTIRE dump is aborted. what preparatory work is req. to get the DAT to work under FreeBSD? I have erased, retensioned the tape and wrote an identifier block on it using: mt fsf 1 do you have any suggestions? Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message