Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:31:23 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 262144-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer Message-ID: <20020318153123.O93909@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020317204254.B2713@sigbus.com> References: <20020317204254.B2713@sigbus.com>
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On Sunday, 17 March 2002 at 20:42:55 -0800, Charles Henrich wrote: > Im trying to read dat tapes made on an IRIX box, and I keep getting > > 262144-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > Even if I try dd w/ bs=256k, or tar -b 512, all of em fail with an I/O error > and that message. Any idea? Sorry, you're out of luck. FreeBSD can read a maximum of 131072 bytes in a single transfer. If the on-tape format is larger than that, you won't be able to read it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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