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From: oneill@bass.bu.edu (Brian V O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: 8mm drive/dump/Ultrix
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Date: 17 Oct 90 13:38:40 GMT
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I am having a problem using an 8mm drive hooked up to a VAXserver 3600
running Ultrix 3.1. The drive was purchased from Digital with I believe a
Largo controller, but the documentation was gone before I started.

The problem is that I cannot perform file skips of dump-format files. It
works fine with tar files, but I want to place multiple dumps onto a single
tape. Any time I attempt to use 'mt fsf', I get an I/O error right about
when it should have reached the end. Any ideas around this problem?

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