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- From: cliff@shadow.phys.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus)
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- Subject: Re: rdump parameters for use with DAT?
- Message-ID: <92Aug21.185254.33149@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 18:52:54 GMT
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- In article <k2.714418921@woodstock> k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
- >cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:
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- >>We do have an HP 2000 DAT drive on another system, and I've checked I
- >>can write to it ok using rdump.ffs on our Mips, so I'd like to use DAT
- >>for doing our Mips backups. What parameters for density and length of
- >>the tape would be suitable for telling rdump to use? DAT tapes of 60m
- >>length seem to be most commonly used here.
- >
- >I use the followinf parameters:
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- >density: 54000
- >size: 4000
- >
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- ...and I've been using density = 54000, size = 3900
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- I would say that's pretty good agreement! {-8
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