DAT 72 tape drive (hits end of tape)

From: Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} (carolyn@cs.usna.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 07:21:54 EDT


I have a SunFire V480 (Solaris 9) and I just attached a brand new
Sun StorEdge DAT 72 tape drive. I am using DDS-4 20/40GB tapes.
Here's my dump parameters:

/usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/1hn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0

It keeps hitting the end of tape after about 20GB. Prior to
attaching the DAT 72 drive, I was using a Sun DDS-4 drive with
the exact same dump parameters and was dumping over 32GB on
the same tape.

Other than a boot -r, I did not change any dip switches or st.conf
parameters. What could be the problem?

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