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- From: fcs@athena.mit.edu (Frank C. Smith)
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- Subject: Re: rdump almost figured out... but not quite
- Keywords: rdump
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.014837.18300@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 01:48:37 GMT
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- In article <37336@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mbutler@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (M. COOPER / B. McQUAID) writes:
- >I've almost got backing up from my NeXT to my D.G. Aviion working.
- >Here's what I do:
-
- (console script deleted)
-
- >My only problem is telling dump that the 1/4 tape on the Aviion is a
- >525 MB device. Apparently dump needs to know this in order to know
- >when to rewind etc. What parameters do I give to dump in order to
- >tell it 525MB? (it wants actual length of the tape as well as other
- >data I don't know). Hopefully someone familiar with dump can help me
-
- You can manipulate the size and density parameters so that dump computes
- the correct capacity for the device you are using. Don't be surprised
- if the capacity that dump gets for a set of these values is not what
- you compute. The values of the size and density are used only
- to compute the capacity of the device, based on an assumption that it
- is a 9-track tape.
-