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From: gn@rathe
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Subject: Backing up a Slab, Viper 150
Summary: Anyone using a Viper 150?
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.061319.5531@rathe.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 06:13:19 GMT
Sender: gn@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Greg Noel)
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Still no luck doing a backup of a slab, can anyone help?

Details....

I have a Viper 150, which was borrowed from our sparcstation,
and am attempting to backup a 400 Meg NeXTstation.

When booting the tape drive is recognized (ARCHIVE VIPER 150 21531 as
st0 at sc0 target 4 lun 0 ), but I cannot figure out a way to get
dump or even dd to work with it.

How do I get dump to recognize it as a 150 meg tape drive and 
not claim I'm using bad media?

Gosh, I sure wish I would receive my OS on floppy. I'll be nervous
that weasels are going to eat my hard disk until I can either get
it backed-up or UPS brings a package from NeXT.

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