Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!slezak@lll-crg.ARPA From: slezak@lll-crg.ARPA (Tom Slezak) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: dump(8) verification Message-ID: <2520@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 15:17:37 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2520 Posted: Mon Oct 28 15:17:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:22:12 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 In an earlier letter on this topic, Daniel Cox said that his Zilog 8000 machine did rewinds during dumps and then resumed forward tape motion...with the hopeful assumption that this implied that verification was being done. Alas, I fear this is not the case. My Zilogs have the same cartridge drives and they are multi-track beasties. The rewind is to get to the beginning of the next track...so don't expect any verification code from Zilog. tom slezak LLNL slezak@llnl