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From: cyliax@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Exabytes and NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.150630.23576@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:06:30 GMT
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If this has been covered before I must have missed it, sorry. I
attached an Exabyte to an old cube running 1.0.  Everything works
OK (it finds it during boot, I can rewinde it etc.), except when
I try to run dump on it. I have tried:

	dump 0fdsb /dev/rxt0 6250 3600 100 /

and it fails with "Write error n feet into tape".
but:

	dump 0fds - 6250 3600 | dd of=/dev/rxt0 bs=100b conv=sync

seems to work fine. Tar also behaves strange :

	tar cvf /dev/rxt0 .

works, but:

	tar cvfb /dev/rxt0 100 .

gets a write error and terminates. Any ideas ? I have looked in the
1.0a release notes and it wasn't covered, just something about not
being able to restore from  multivolume OD's. Is it "fixed in 2.0" ?

Thanks, -ingo
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