From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 21 13:37:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05475 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05442 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26347; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:36:52 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA00278; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:36:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA14779; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:24:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604211824.UAA14779@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:24:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "David Kelly" at Apr 21, 96 10:24:09 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Kelly wrote: > How do we determine what blocksize a tape was written with? By reading one byte, and watching the error message on the console. j@uriah 161% dd if=/dev/rst0 ibs=1 count=1 of=/dev/null dd: /dev/rst0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 2 secs (0 bytes/sec) Apr 21 20:23:10 uriah /kernel: st0: 32768-byte record too big Apr 21 20:23:10 uriah /kernel: st0: 32768-byte record too big :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)