From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 07:30:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA21250 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 07:30:45 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA21243 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 07:30:44 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA08221; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:27:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:27:56 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9507261427.AA08221@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bob Willcox Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions) Subject: Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape In-Reply-To: <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com> References: <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I have encountered a problem trying to install a system with the > 2.0.5-0622-SNAP from an Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (connected to > a BusLogic BT-747S SCSI controller). It gets to the point where > it is trying to extract data from the tape and then fails with the > message: > st0: 10240-byte record too big 8mm tapes can be written with either fixed or variable block size; it seems likely to me that the driver is using the wrong one for your tape. The SCSI mavens should probably have more to say about this. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant