From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 18 19:43:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA02277 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 19:43:06 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA02266 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 19:43:04 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA06341; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 19:39:08 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504190239.TAA06341@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: DAT tape problems To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 19:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dufault@hda.com, dfr@render.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <22249.798257424@mumps.pfcs.com> from "Harlan Stenn" at Apr 18, 95 10:10:24 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 727 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've been quiet, but I can read DAT tapes written from an AIX box, and I > can write tapes with FreeBSD-SNAP950322 (or whatever) and with -current > as of 30 April, but I can't read tapes written by either FreeBSD machine > from either machine. I don't know if the written tapes contain valid > data; I just know that "dump" didn't complain when writing them. Remember to set the tape's blocksize in SMIT to something appropiate for the tape you wrote on FreeBSD. Either '0' (meaning variable) or the exact blocksize you wrote the tape at. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'