From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 3 08:30:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01050 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles310.castles.com [208.214.167.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01023 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03320; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:26:53 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809030826.IAA03320@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@freebie.dcfinc.com, don@calis.BlackSun.org, scott@SchematiX.net Subject: Re: 8mm tape block size max - changed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 06:28:47 -0400." <199809031028.GAA21042@claret.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:26:52 +0000 From: Mike Smith 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 .. I couldn't work out why you were using 128 byte blocks. The blocksize you quoted in the error message looked pretty weird too; as though something somewhere was seriously confused. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message