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From: elric@40watt.cts.com (Elric)
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 dump options for 4mm tape?/
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 01:09:38 GMT
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Alan E. Ross (aross@convex.com) wrote:
: Anybody got some good /sbin/dump options to use all of a 
: 4mm DAT tape?  BSDI's dump does not support the "E" option
: ( ignore blocking/size and go to EOT ).  For what it's worth,
: I have a SCSI Exabyte 4mm tape on a BT-946C Buslogic adapter.

: Thanks,
: Alan

Good at least you get yours to work alittle.. Mine locks up the machine when
I try and do the following:

tar cvf /dev/rst0 /

Anyone know why.. It is a HP tape drive.

Eric@qualcomm.com