> I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the > capacity of this is something around 2Gb. [snip]
I had a bit of difficulty getting dump to work with my T-4000s (4Gb TR-4). What worked for me was defining the tape size in 1K blocks (even though the tape block size is different): dump 0ufB /dev/nst0 4000000 / So, in your case, try dump 0ufB /dev/nst0 2000000 / -- _ _ Steve Kostecke | (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://www.mindspring.com/~stk3 | | | | | | |_| |> < ...the choice of a GNU generation |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .