From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 14:42: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286E437B4A0 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethel (lan08.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5ELSFL08931; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:28:15 -0700 Message-ID: <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614212821.GD64898@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:38:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > That would definitely work, yes. If they're using tar, have them run > something like "tar cvb 128", which will give you 64k blocks on tape. Does it matter how the DTF is formatted? Or is that a hardware-level thing? I mean, should I have them set the blocksize with MT before they format the tape? Then write the tar archive with the block-size at 128? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message