david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (12/21/88)
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- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david 660 South Euclid Washington University Medical School Saint Louis, MO 63110