SUMMARY: Exabyte 8500 params

From: Carsten Hennig (hennig@darmstadt.gmd.de)
Date: Mon May 11 1992 - 11:56:02 CDT


Hello everybody !

Sorry for my late summary, but I married two days after my query, and then
I needed two weeks to recover myself from that. :-)

Now, here is my original posting:

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> Hello managers,
>
> on last Friday, Greg Gilley <gilley@ndl.com> sent out a summary about
> the dump parameters for the Exabyte 8200. Now I wonder, which parameters
> to use with our new Exabyte 8500 (SunOS 4.1.2, Sun-4/670).
>
> In the moment I use
> b=126
> d=54000
> s=12000,
> but this does not seem to be the best configuration.
> With these paramters dump will put about 3.7 GByte onto the Exabyte
> (>>DUMP: estimated 2058970 blocks (1005.36MB) on 0.27 tape(s).<<).
>
>
> Is there anyone, who has a better solution for the 8500 ?
> I'll summarize.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Carsten Hennig
>

I have to thank the following:

Terry Figel <admin%esrg@hub.ucsb.edu>
Todd Pfaff <todd@flex.Eng.McMaster.CA>
Jay Lessert <bit!jayl>
Bob Reardon <reardon@sws.SINet.SLB.COM>
Danielle Sanine <danielle@systems.caltech.edu>
Calum Mackay <calum@mrc-biostatistics.cambridge.ac.uk>
Vlastimil Malinek <vlastimil.malinek@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk>
Larry Chin <cchtor!larry>
Kjell Magnus Myge <kjmm@statoil.no>
Bob Rutherford <rr6204@moses.boeing.com>
Helmar Goettsch <goettsch@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Martin Tews <tews@dfki.uni-sb.de>

The solution:

The most of you take the following parameters for dumping to a 8500 in
5-GB-mode:

s=10380
d=4100000
b=112

When you try this, be sure to take rst[8-15] as the device for the 8500.

(I myself made this mistake: our 8500 comes up as rst4, and of course, I have
to use rst12 to get 5-GB-mode. :-))

Thanks again to all who responded.

Carsten Hennig

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