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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: QIC-80 tapes!! Date: 24 Jun 1994 01:33:46 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Subscriber Account, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet! Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2uduoa$aph@Venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2 (KSD)] I just tried to do a backup to my Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive via the ft command outlined in the man page to backup the /usr partition. My /usr is about 30% full. It whirred into action (the drive) and I thought it was cool, I come back 3 hours later and it is still going...but I notice that it seems to be basically spinning back and forth. This is a BRand new tape, bought tonight and it was pre-formatted to qic-80. Is there something I am doing wrong??