Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: : I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the : capacity of this is something around 2Gb. : : dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary : to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to t

Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
> 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 d

Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Philippe Troin
[sent only to debian-user, not cross-posted to debian-devel] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:30:58 GMT "Oliver Elphick" (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the > capacity of this is something around 2Gb. Yes, about 2Gb. > dump seems to believe

`dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the capacity of this is something around 2Gb. dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to the end of the tape, but asks for a new volume after on