On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Yoseff Francus wrote:

> Bingo, the -B option did the trick.

> From:    Dave Archer <dmarcher@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: Configuring a SEAGATE DAT tape drive
> 
> Ah, what Jochen said in the message I see after yours is a good point. 
> By default, dump wants to switch tapes based on whatever the default
> density is which is based on some really old tape format and is indeed
> much much smaller than 2GB.  You'll want to set it to the theoretical
> maximum or higher since you really just want dump to ignore how much
> it's written to the tape and just change tapes when it hits an end of
> tape.    I use -B4194304 ( 4*(1024^2) ).

I've often wished you could just use -B0 for that--I find it hard to
multiply 6 digit numbers in my head!