SyQuest removables under RISCiX

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1 total messages Started by M Y Ben Gershon Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:43

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Author: M Y Ben Gershon
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:43

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If anyone has any experience of using SyQuest removables to backup RISCiX
using 'dump', could they please contact me.  I have managed to get it
backed-up, using a 'tape density' of 4096 and a 'tape length' of 1180ft, and
it prompts for the second 'tape' correctly under 'dump'.  However, 'restore'
gives up when it gets to the end of the first 'tape' and says that it got a
'read error while trying to resynchronize'.  Presumably it doesn't recognise
that it has reached the end of the 'tape'.  However, it DOES know when doing
'dump'!

By the way, it does seem to work when using the i flag and doing an interactive
restore - well it knows when a file is on the second volume, but I haven't
tested it rigorously, so it may not always work.

Another Syquest problem concerns RISC OS backups.  Does anyone know of any
software which will back up RISC OS s/w (preferably compressed) onto 
multiple SyQuests?  RISC DEVELOPMENTS' HD Companion is no good, as it will
only do one SyQuest cartridge.  I have tried Frank Lancaster's 'tar', but
it does not dismount the SyQuest when it gives a prompt, so it's no good, as
the SyQuest can't be removed from the drive!

Any help would be much appreciated.

Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk

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