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From: ericw@asihub.autosys.com (Eric D. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Need Help with DEC DAT tlz04 unit
Message-ID: <301@asihub.autosys.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 22:40:22 GMT
Reply-To: ericw@autosys.com (Eric D. Williams)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, San Diego R&D
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>>I recently received a DEC TLZ04 unit. I`ll try to use it to do a remote
>>dump, but after 300Mb it asks me to put another tape.
>
>>Please does someone know the tape density registration for this unit ?
>
>I'm also having similar problems.  Could somebody, please, post or mail
>the parameters that need to be specified on the command line or elsewhere
>that corrects this problem?  

   I am doing un-attended nightly rdumps to two TLZ04 4mm DAT drives.
   Here are the parameters I use:

     rdump 0sdf 6500 4400000 fig:/dev/rmt0h

   These work from a Vax 3600 and a ds5400, both running Ultrix 4.0.
   The machine the TLZ04 is connected to (a ds3100) is running Ultrix
   4.1.

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     Eric D. Williams                     
     Cadence Design Systems               San Diego
     ericw@autosys.com                    Systems Group
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