From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 11 13:30:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28847 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28723; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA25949 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:42:02 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id UAA01048; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199808111816.UAA01048@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199808110035.TAA00818@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Aug 10, 98 07:35:25 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:58 +0200 (CEST) Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As David Kelly wrote... > Stefan Esser writes: > > On 1998-08-09 17:32 +0200, Peter van Heusden w > > rote: > > > However, I cannot write to it at all - even after a 'mt erase', I get the > > > following: > > > > > > bash# mt rewind > > > bash# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/nrst0 bs=64 count=1024 > > > dd: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error > > > 1+0 records in > > > 0+0 records out > > > 0 bytes transferred in 0.082043 secs (0 bytes/sec) > > > bash# On mine: su-2.01# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/nrst1 bs=64 count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 5.187031 secs (12635 bytes/sec) su-2.01# Why you want to use 64 byte blocks escapes me because: su-2.01# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/nrst1 bs=64k count=1024 17+1 records in 17+1 records out 1176833 bytes transferred in 11.385549 secs (103362 bytes/sec) A 8200 native speed is something like 240kb/sec if I remember well. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message