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* raymond@www.woopwoop.com <raymond@www.woopwoop.com> [20040612 06:58]: wrote:
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> I have added a Sony SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive to a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system.
> The tape successfully does a dump and restore on this system but when
> the tape is taken to a Sony SDX-400 SCSI tape drive on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
> system, restore insists that the tape blocks are 512 bytes and this is
> not a multiple of 1024 (the tape was created with a -b 32).

Could this be something to do with differences in ufs2 and old time ufs?
5.2.1 uses ufs2. I am not sure if that is compatible with the old ufs in
4.x - and I am not expert on file systems either ;)
Just blubbing around, to see if this might be a clue...



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