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- From: spxpmf@thor.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 - Dump parameters
- Keywords: parameters
- Message-ID: <25876.9207241150@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 11:50:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.153844.8924@bwdls61.bnr.ca> pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker) writes:
- |In article <a_plante.711814645@clouso> a_plante@crim.ca (Alain Plante) writes:
- |> We are using Exabyte 8500 with sunOS 4.1.2 My problem is that i'm
- |>not able to put more than 2.3 gigs of stuff on one tape. I have a few
- |>scripts and most of them works fine...
- |
- |Your dump parameters are fine. RTFM the sections on st: under 4.1.2,
- |the tape device files allow you explicit control over whether you use
- |8200 or 8500 mode. Try using /dev/rst8.
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- I just got off the phone to our Exabyte drive suppliers technical
- department, according to them using /dev/rstn+8 for 5GB density is fine,
- as long as the tape is new. If your tape has been used on an Exabyte
- 8200 unit the new 8500 drive will continue to use the tape as a 2.3 GB
- tape.
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