Re: `dump' command - tape size

[Steve Kostecke <steve@kostecke.net>]

> I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
> capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
[snip]

I had a bit of difficulty getting dump to work with my T-4000s (4Gb TR-4).  
What worked for me was defining the tape size in 1K blocks (even though the 
tape block size is different):

dump 0ufB /dev/nst0 4000000 /

So, in your case, try

dump 0ufB /dev/nst0 2000000 /

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