Subject: Errors reading dump on Exabyte 8200
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Marinier, M. Claude, G. <claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/28/1998 10:57:27
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I am setting up a server: NetBSD 1.3.2 (GENERIC for now) on a Pentium II
233 MHz with 128 MB, an AHA-2940, and an Exabyte 8200 (also tried a Python
DAT). I have created a dump tape on the 8200 but cannot read it (restore
-i does not get to the prompt). There were some I/O errors while the dump
script ran. I switched to a DAT drive and got the same kind of behaviour.
However, I was able to write to it and read from it without any errors
using 'tar cf' and 'tar tf'.

I have searched for an answer but found none. I get the impression that
this have been done many times before. I must be missing something basic.
I have included the dump script.

If this is not a simple matter of forgetting an option on the dump command
(or some such thing), I will gather more information and resubmit.

Please reply directly to me. I will summarize.

Thank you.

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Claude Marinier, Information Technology Group    claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca 
Defence Research Establishment Ottawa (DREO)    (613) 998-4901  FAX 998-2675
3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0Z4         http://www.dreo.dnd.ca

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