Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:16:11 +0200 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.shenton.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: st0: 262144-byte record too big (reading SGI tar tape) Message-ID: <19980918191611.12243@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org>; from Chris Shenton on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:21:06PM -0400 References: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org>
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As Chris Shenton wrote: > I'm trying to restore files from tar image tape made on an > SGI. Whether I use "dd" or "tar" I get the same complaint in syslog: > > st0: 262144-byte record too big You cannot read SGI tapes (with their default blocksize) on FreeBSD, due to limitations in physio(9) (which have been constrained by older SCSI controllers that cannot handle more than 16 scatter/gather segments). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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