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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 09:14:41 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Subject:   Re: restore seems to be misbehaving
Message-ID:  <19970914091441.PA51985@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709140342.XAA07327@whizzo.TransSys.COM>; from Louis A. Mamakos on Sep 13, 1997 23:42:18 -0400
References:  <199709140342.XAA07327@whizzo.TransSys.COM>

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As Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> When I run 'restore -t', I get a bunch of 'resync restore' errors.  What's
> strange is that when I run 'dd if=/dev/rst0 bs=20b | restore -t -f -'
> instead, everythings works just fine.
> 
> What really puzzles me is that when I ktrace the first case, I notice
> that the read(2) syscall is returning 32K bytes, rather than the 10K bytes
> that I expected:

Hmm, it Works For Me(tm):

j@uriah 238% /sbin/restore rv
Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape block size is 10
                   ^^

I've extra prepared a 10 KB blocked tape for this (normally, they are
being blocked 32 KB anyway).

This is with a Tandberg TDC4222, using a DC9100 cartridge, and a NCR
53c810 controller.  My system is from ~ August 9.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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