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From: wwtz@ciba-geigy.ch (Wolfgang Wetz)
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Subject: Re: dump and Exabyte Drives
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Date: 17 Jul 90 15:01:41 GMT
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In article <1990Jul16.143932.3659@Solbourne.COM> jwc@gilda.Solbourne.COM (Jeff Christy) writes:
>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 ?

I tried to locate /etc/media in SunOS 4.0.3 and in SunOS 4.1. Unfortunately
my version seems to miss it. Also TFM did not help. Can you provide some
info on the filelayout? Also the dump command in SunOS does not (officially)
know of the -M option. Are you sure the above note corresponds to SunOS?
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