Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:45:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Message-ID: <20020614224553.GC72247@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <00f001c213f4$bfdaf120$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614212821.GD64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614214208.GA72247@dan.emsphone.com> <00f001c213f4$bfdaf120$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 14), David Smithson said: > Okay, I have a test tape now. The client misunderstood and > used --block-size=64 in tar. Now I get the following message: > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 32768-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > What now? Must the block-size be exactly 64k (--block-size=128)? No, but you have to tell your tar to use the same (or larger) blocksize on your end. It defaults to 10k. If you use --block-size=64, it'll work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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