Re: problem with HP-C1537A tape drive(DDS2,DDs3)

2000-09-27 Thread Boaz Rymland
I hope It'll help: try setting the -B option for the dump command. from dump's man page: - -B records The number of 1 KB blocks per volume. This option overrides the calculation of tape size based on length and density. --- In other

problem with HP-C1537A tape drive(DDS2,DDs3)

2000-09-26 Thread avishaya
Hi, I have tried to backup with dump to a tape drive model HP-C1537A(dds2,dds3) on (symbios scsi - ncr53c8xx) on linux box(version 6 - kernel 2.2.12-20). Yes, the OS recognize the tape and load the "st" module(scsi id 2). when i type : mt -f /dev/nst0 stat (ofcourse when i put DDS3 media) SCSI