From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 11:52:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC3C1509F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23050; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:49:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Font Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DAT always writes short tapes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Font wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE system with an AHA-2940UW on it, and a > WangDAT 3400DX DDS-2 DAT tape drive (along with two 4 gig drives) hung off > of it. > > When I dump to the drive (ie, "dump -0au -f /dev/nrsa0 /home"), dump asks > me to change tapes after about 1.5 gigabytes of data has been dumped. > Since I use either 90m or 120m tapes, I've been expecting a tape change > after more than 2 or more than 4 gigabytes, respectively, depending on > the tape. But no matter what size I use, I'm always changing tapes after > 1.5 gigabytes. Hm, perhaps the tape drive is giving a false end-of-tape indicator. Try specifying the size of the tape using the B and b options instead of the a option. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message