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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> I am using a QIC tape drive, and DC525 tapes, 525MB. tbpi 20000,
> length 1020 feet, the file system is only ;

Rewire your dump command line to use the B and b options.  The old f
options don't make sense and are hard to find on newer hardware.  

See 'man dump' for details.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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