From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 4 11:52:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA28749 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:52:58 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA28743 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:52:56 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA28353; Wed, 4 Jan 95 12:46:42 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501041946.AA28353@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: default block size on rdump To: pirzyk@fa.disney.com Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 12:46:42 MST Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "pirzyk@fa.disney.com" at Jan 4, 95 12:32:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I am trying to restore a tape from a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 machine on a sun. What > is the default block size when writing to the tape. I have not found it by > looking at the FAQs. I have tried 20k; this should be the same as the Sun. You may need to use dd if=/dev/rst0 conv=swab | instead of trying to extract directly from tape. SPARC chips and Intel chips have different byte orders. This is especially relevent if you don't use the 'a' (ASCII) and 'c' (CHARACTER) cpio options as religious defaults, for instance. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.