gn@rathe.cs.umn.edu (04/07/91)
After a short talk with NeXT (Thanks NeXT!), they suggested the problem might be that the Viper 150 was a fixed block tape drive. After tracking down the appropriate man page ( st (4)) I built a little program to set the archive to fixed block I/O. If anyone wants this, let me know. I then calculated how many feet of tape I would need if this was 1600bpi tape ( ~8000 ) and dumped the hard disk with the command: dump 0fs /dev/rst0 8000 This worked great! -- Greg Noel uunet!umn-cs!rathe!maschine!gn -- Just before Skylab re-entry: TV Reporter: "Excuse sir, why are you wearing that odd aluminum hat?" Man with Odd Hat: "Well I figure the chances of a person getting hit by skylab falling is one in a million, but what are the chances of it hitting a person wearing a funny aluminum hat....it's got to be in the billions!"