Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 10:24:09 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Message-ID: <v02140b0ead9ffbc2bafa@[206.104.22.146]>
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>I rebooted and it's working now, at least on that cartridge.
>
>The problem now is that I did a "tar /" to it and only got 412057600 bytes
>before EOF, which bothers me. It reported an unrecovered error:
>
>Apr 21 03:42:39 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2b8
>asc:c,0 Write error Apr 21 03:42:39 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): MEDIUM
>ERROR asc:c,0 Write error
>
>David Kelly writes:
>> This needs more experimentation.
>
>Indeed. Maybe I'll see what it does with 525M cartridges.
I wonder if tar and/or dump and/or dd default to the 512 byte blocksize
reported by mt? Tried a simple "dd if=/dev/tape of=/dev/null" and the tape
hunted back and forth, back and forth. But when I added "bs=10k" is spooled
all the way thru the tape.
How do we determine what blocksize a tape was written with?
--
David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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