From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 10:22:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24186 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24166; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id TAA15964; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:21:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA01549; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:16:11 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19980918191611.12243@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:16:11 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: Chris Shenton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: st0: 262144-byte record too big (reading SGI tar tape) Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org>; from Chris Shenton on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:21:06PM -0400 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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