On 8 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it
> > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually
> > necessary?
>
> Your tape drive has a quirk but no entry yet in the kernel quirk
> table, (or you simply use non-default settings for your backups
> for some good reason), and you need to manually set the block size,
> density, or some such before you can read back your backup.
>
> (Is the EOT model an issue for reading, too?)
No.
>
> > Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence
> > of mt?
>
> You can use restore's "-s" flag to position to a particular file.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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