lat@snoopy.cs.vt.edu (Laurie Zirkle) (12/20/90)
I finally received our TLZ04, and it seems to work pretty well under Ultrix 4.0. I can rdump anything from another Ultrix machine without having to worry about the dump parameters for length. The problem I have run into is when rdumping from an A/UX MacII. The rdump program on A/UX 2.0 is not quite as robust for foreign machines as I would like. I can get rdump to work if I use a blocking factor of 10 from the A/UX side, but it asks me to change tapes (and I can't believe that a 200mb disk can use 1.2gb in tape for a dump and then ask for more!). Can anyone help with this? I would really like to dump all those beasts to this tape drive instead of having to use my one-and-only 9-track tape on a Sequent. Laurie Zirkle phone: 703-231-6370 Computer Systems Engineer internet: lat@vtopus.cs.vt.edu Va Tech CS Dept bitnet: lat@vtcs1 Blacksburg, VA 24061
lat@snoopy.cs.vt.edu (Laurie Zirkle) (12/20/90)
Hmph! That will teach me to put my glasses on so I can see better. On purusing the manual pages on both systems once again, i read a little closer the "s" option to dump.bsd/rdump on A/UX. You can give it length in feet, kilobytes, and megabytes, among other things. Maybe this will work - I'll find out in a while. Sorry for not reading closer the first time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe, one of these days (years), all unixes will be the same. I guess I better not hold my breath - I could be out of a job if that happens. Laurie Zirkle phone: 703-231-6370 Computer Systems Engineer internet: lat@vtopus.cs.vt.edu Va Tech CS Dept bitnet: lat@vtcs1 Blacksburg, VA 24061