From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 21: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBEA37B405 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:01:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 97D647831E; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:31:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:31:23 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Charles Henrich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 262144-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer Message-ID: <20020318153123.O93909@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020317204254.B2713@sigbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020317204254.B2713@sigbus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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