Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 15:12:45 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: vallo@matti.ee, almazs@wgn.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump on Archive DAT drive Message-ID: <19980801151245.A5487@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: <19980801130854.33179@matti.ee>; from Vallo Kallaste on Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 01:08:54PM %2B0300 References: <35C2C040.3CC5@wgn.net> <19980801130854.33179@matti.ee>
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On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 01:08:54PM +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > almazs@wgn.net wrote: > > > 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? > > *** > > Use command line like: > > /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/src/ > > You must end /usr/src with a slash. I don't know why I must do that, but > it needs slash, either. > > Vallo Kallaste > vallo@matti.ee Hmm, no ending slash seems to work fine on mine: FreeBSD-2.2.6 /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/nrst0 /usr # for example By the way, I bought my DAT from Conner, and the boot probe identifies it as an "ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX 4.98". -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear somebody refer to a disk drive as a 'solution'? It's bad enough I have to listen to that marketing hype from vendors, but now it seems to be infiltrating every-day conversation. I'll decide if that 9GB hard drive is a 'solution' to my problem or not, thank you very much..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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