Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:51:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: toj@gorilla.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Subject: Re: Floppy drive Message-ID: <19970312005115.DG04591@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199703112322.RAA03095@peeper.jackson.org>; from Tom Jackson on Mar 11, 1997 17:22:00 -0600 References: <331B6598.39B8@primenet.com> <199703080537.WAA09723@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199703112322.RAA03095@peeper.jackson.org>
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As Tom Jackson wrote: > In the process of moving from ide to scsi I wanted to eliminate the floppy > tape drive and use my new ezflyer scsi disk drive (like a scsi *Zip*) to > do dumps. Tried `dump 0uaf - (fs) | gzip | dd conv=osync >(or >>) > /dev/[r]sd3. This works for one dump within the one disk cartridge but not > for multiple dumps to one cartridge (disk) and the sense for end-of-media > to tell you to change tape (disk). Multiple dumps overwrite each other and > going to the end of the disk aborts the dump. Of course, you can't do it there. Disks don't support the notion of different `tape files' or `tape extents'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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