From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 2 18:20:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14236 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from claret.cisco.com (claret.cisco.com [161.44.2.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14230 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fty@cisco.com) Received: (fty@localhost) by claret.cisco.com (8.8.4-Cisco.1/8.6.5) id VAA25476 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:19:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers Message-Id: <199809030119.VAA25476@claret.cisco.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 8mm tape block size max - changed? X-Face: ,fjtWiMPydUaSQl%8[eTg`u:^BXt&T)Sny(6w\*U"5D9H[Z$kG%Q/z;Z=NwrPiXf-aMF3R) Rsand$,]26-8>5@HD(A3A79gN|0%NHsdek4mT8E,>j+\w!~d2#nH;~NV!5a0"`5$Cj8d\or(Jy/JQ_ |uc;C[filmZ(~#lre*l:|O%d/PJFy`.5w8)sMZ-)QI3TaV"j'k X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.0] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks - I recently upgraded from 2.0.x where I routinely used a block size of 128b with tar and dump. Using 2.1.7 I get: st0: 64512-byte record too big when I try to read the old tapes. Now I have all these old tapes I can't read. Am I missing something? TIA - Frank \\\\////\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\ Frank Terhaar-Yonkers Cisco Systems, Inc. Cat3900 Software Team 7025 Kit Creek Road PO Box 14987 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 fty@cisco.com voice (919)472-2101 FAX (919)472-2940 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message