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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI tape block size Date: 8 Oct 1996 08:26:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <53d37i$jhm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <8720ffxq0j.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <536grc$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <87d8ywxp6u.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote: > JW> restore(8) will figure it out by itself. > > I used cpio since dump/restore does only backup 1 filesystem. I don't > trust to use /dev/nrst0 and put several dumps after each other on 1 > tape. How do you deal with multiple (possibly) small filesystems and > dump/restore? I use /dev/nrst0. ;-) What's the reason you don't trust it? dump/restore has other fine features like the fact that the TOC is stored at the beginning of the dump, `restore -i', or a working multi-level incremental system. All this makes it useful for me. (Making an oversized read().) > So: the generic kernel (2.1.5 release and current) on the boot floppy > does not work well with SCSI tapes connected through an NCR 815. Is > this a known problem? No idea. The example has been on an NCR 810, but with a 2.2-current system. Your question is probably best placed into freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org. Hmm, well, re-reading it: of course, i don't use a GENERIC kernel either. But that's weird, i dunno what might be that specific in GENERIC at all. -- 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. ;-)