From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 14:43:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E71537B43A for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5ELg98Z082535; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:42:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:42:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Smithson Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Message-ID: <20020614214208.GA72247@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614212821.GD64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Jun 14), David Smithson said: > > 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? SCSI drives are almost always variable-blocked nowadays. Telling tar the blocksize should be all you need to do. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message