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- From: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 - Dump parameters
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.084023.22925@ericsson.se>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 08:40:23 GMT
- References: <25876.9207241150@thor.cf.ac.uk>
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- In article 9207241150@thor.cf.ac.uk, spxpmf@thor.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Yes-and-no. Addressing /dev/nrst(n+8) makes no difference on those of
- our machines that run SunOS 4.1.1, but on this machine (an SS10/41
- running SunOS 4.1.3-beta) it works as described. I haven't yet had time
- to try it on 4.1.2 and I don't know if patches for the older OS
- versions are available. Can anyone else shed some light on this?
-
- >Phillip Fayers email: fayers@cardiff.ac.uk
- >Sun admin/support/programming phone: 0222 874000 x 5282 (UK)
-
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