Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!stan!gilda!jwc From: jwc@gilda.Solbourne.COM (Jeff Christy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: dump and Exabyte Drives Message-ID: <1990Jul16.143932.3659@Solbourne.COM> Date: 16 Jul 90 14:39:32 GMT Sender: news@Solbourne.COM Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc. Lines: 8 The P6-120 8mm cartridge is 346 feet long, according to my documentation. Hope this helps. Jeff Christy Solbourne Computer - MIS P.S. - SunOS has a file, /etc/media, which describes various tape attributes. The dump qualifier -M specifies that you want to use the information given in this file for some specific tape type. Does Ultrix have a similar facility ?