Subject: Re: bin/25967: dump -a not continuing after end of media
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 06/20/2004 08:39:37
In article <20040619223424.GB596@bcd.geek.com.au>,
Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> writes:
> This didn't appear to make any difference in earlier tests; sorry, I
> should have mentioned that in the PR. I kicked off a pax to the same
> tape with default eew settings last night, and this morning it's asked
> me to change, so at least pax seems to DTRT.
It works with "dump" for me, too. Without "mt eew 1" a dump written to my
DAT drive would cause an I/O error, too, and produce an unreadable backup.
Using "mt eew 1" fixed the problem reliably.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/