From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 15:46: 0 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 C9E8337B40C for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:45:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5EMjsMr086969; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:45:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:45:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Smithson Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Message-ID: <20020614224553.GC72247@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$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614214208.GA72247@dan.emsphone.com> <00f001c213f4$bfdaf120$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f001c213f4$bfdaf120$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: > Okay, I have a test tape now. The client misunderstood and > used --block-size=64 in tar. Now I get the following message: > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 32768-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > What now? Must the block-size be exactly 64k (--block-size=128)? No, but you have to tell your tar to use the same (or larger) blocksize on your end. It defaults to 10k. If you use --block-size=64, it'll work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message