Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:42:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Message-ID: <20020614214208.GA72247@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614212821.GD64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>
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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
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