Dump parameters for QIC-150.

Luis Barriga luis at bonito.tds.kth.se
Fri Aug 10 21:28:13 AEST 1990


We use a 150 Mbyte 1/4 inch cartridge tape Drive. The specification names
the following parameters:

	Data density: 10000 bpi
	Tracks           18 Track Serpentine
	length          600 ft.

When I perform a dump the following happens:

# /etc/dump 0csdtf 600 10000 18 /dev/nrst8 /dev/id000f
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Aug 10 13:21:45 1990
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rid000f (/cm) to /dev/nrst8
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 298380 blocks (145.69MB) on 0.15 tape(s).
                                 ^^^^^^^      ^^^^^
  ........[stuff deleted]

The estimation shows only 0.15 tape(s), when it should say 0.9X
tape(s)since the capacity is approx. 150 MB.

Anybody got the right parameters?

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