What is the 'real' tape length?
David J. Camp
david at wubios.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 21 22:48:54 AEST 1988
Spot,
We have a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.0. The tapes that I buy for the Sun
say on them "600'", which I assume means 600 feet. However, when I use
dump, and specify a size longer than 600', it does not fail until
somewhere near 1000' (at least that is what it reports). I have been
specifying 900' for some time now with no problems. Does anyone know what
is going on? Is the tape actually 1000', or is dump broken?
I was using the tape via the /dev/rst0 driver. Is there any good reason
to use /dev/rst8 instead?
-David-
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