From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 3 03:30:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA25247 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 03:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from claret.cisco.com (claret.cisco.com [161.44.2.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA25238 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 03:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fty@cisco.com) Received: (fty@localhost) by claret.cisco.com (8.8.4-Cisco.1/8.6.5) id GAA21042; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:28:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:28:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers Message-Id: <199809031028.GAA21042@claret.cisco.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8mm tape block size max - changed? Cc: chad@freebie.dcfinc.com, don@calis.BlackSun.org, scott@SchematiX.net X-Face: ,fjtWiMPydUaSQl%8[eTg`u:^BXt&T)Sny(6w\*U"5D9H[Z$kG%Q/z;Z=NwrPiXf-aMF3R) Rsand$,]26-8>5@HD(A3A79gN|0%NHsdek4mT8E,>j+\w!~d2#nH;~NV!5a0"`5$Cj8d\or(Jy/JQ_ |uc;C[filmZ(~#lre*l:|O%d/PJFy`.5w8)sMZ-)QI3TaV"j'k X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.0] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The machine is/was an NFS/Samba/DNS/DHCP/Mail server and had uptimes on order of many months. So yes, if it's not broke, don't fix it. It was only when I had trouble compiling some ports, that it was time to upgrade. Now I need to deal with the incompatibilities - like this tape driver issue. Three responses and *no* help - come on folks .. BTW - The tape drive in question is an Exabyte 8500. - Frank >> I recently upgraded from 2.0.x where I routinely used a block size of >> 128b with tar and dump. Using 2.1.7 >Why are there so many older freebsd installations around? Isnt FreeBSD up >to version 2.2.7-STABLE? > >-don > \\\\////\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\ Frank Terhaar-Yonkers Cisco Systems, Inc. Cat3900 Software Team 7025 Kit Creek Road PO Box 14987 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 fty@cisco.com voice (919)472-2101 FAX (919)472-2940 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message