Hi Ken, If you've been using the Foxboro script dmp0_8MM or so, then there should be no problem with the dump. The blocksize is setup to be 20. Have a look in /usr/local/dmp0_8MM and you will find a line like this: options='0ucbdsf 20 54000 13000' meaning: 0 dump zero. u Update the dump record. c Cartridge. b Blocking factor. d Tape density. s Volume size. f Dump file name. If however, you've done away with all that restrictive nonsense in the script about blocks, density and size like I have, then Foxboro has a problem but they should still be able to read the tape by doing the same. The problem you expresses relies most likely in the fact that you've not specified the blocking size, which will result in a default blocking size of 126 and Foxboro stuck to the blocking size of 20. It is perfectly ok to have different blocking factors between tape devices as long as the reading device has a blocking factor EQUAL or GREATER than the one that is used to make the tape. To make life easy at Foxboro you better remake the tape and make sure you have the blocking factor set to 20. Don't worry about tape density and volume size. You can leave that to the drives to sort out. They are perfectly capable of that. Cheers, Frits Schouten. BHP-NZSteel. -----Original Message----- From: Ken.E.Moore@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Ken.E.Moore@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:10 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] tape drive question Hi all, We recently purched a Sony quad speed DDS-2 tape drive. When using the ufsdump utility to back up an entire hard drive, the Sony drive uses 512 blocks. We sent a tape off to Foxboro and they could not read it. The Foxboro tape drives use 1024 blocks. I know with the tar command you can specify block size in multiples of 512 with the B switch. Is there a similar switch for the usfdump? thanks, Ken Moore NSCC Woodruff, SC IMPORTANT NOTICE: This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. ___________________________________________________________________ This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by The Foxboro Company. Use the information obtained here at your own risk. For disclaimer, see http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html#maillist list info: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave EOM NOTICE - This message and any attached files may contain information that is confidential and/or subject of legal privilege intended only for use by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this message in error and that any dissemination, copying or use of this message or attachment is strictly forbidden, as is the disclosure of the information therein. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. ___________________________________________________________________ This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by The Foxboro Company. Use the information obtained here at your own risk. For disclaimer, see http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html#maillist list info: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave