From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Aug  1 12:09:08 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10522
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:09:08 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from home2.stratos.net (home2.stratos.net [209.117.223.3])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10515
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:09:06 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net)
From: drifter@stratos.net
Received: from somniac.org [207.86.132.86] by home2.stratos.net with ESMTP
  (SMTPD32-4.03) id A7CA2F2013C; Sat, 01 Aug 1998 15:08:58 EDT
Received: (from drifter@localhost)
	by somniac.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA05616;
	Sat, 1 Aug 1998 15:12:46 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from drifter)
Message-ID: <19980801151245.A5487@stratos.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 15:12:45 -0400
To: vallo@matti.ee, almazs@wgn.net
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: dump on Archive DAT drive
References: <35C2C040.3CC5@wgn.net> <19980801130854.33179@matti.ee>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i
In-Reply-To: <19980801130854.33179@matti.ee>; from Vallo Kallaste on Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 01:08:54PM +0300
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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