From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 21 08:24:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA22465 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 08:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA22459 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 08:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max2-181.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA23796; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 10:24:04 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 10:24:09 -0500 To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison