Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 11:44:21 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: fty@cisco.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8mm tape block size max - changed? Message-ID: <199809041844.LAA15768@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199809040257.VAA17656@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Sep 3, 98 09:57:35 pm"
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> Frank Terhaar-Yonkers writes:
> > I recently upgraded from 2.0.x where I routinely used a block size of
> > 128b with tar and dump. Using 2.1.7 I get: st0: 64512-byte record too big
> > when I try to read the old tapes.
> >
> > Now I have all these old tapes I can't read. Am I missing something?
>
> So you used "tar -cvb 128 files" to write a tar tape?
>
> Would suggest you try using tcopy to determine what blocksize is being
> used but I just tried it myself and it didn't work right at all.
> Multiple tape blocks were read to serve one read(). If this is
> happening to you then that may be the key to the puzzle:
Or,
dd if=/dev/tape of=/tmp/junk bs=64k count=1
ls -l /tmp/junk
should tell you the size of the tape blocks.
-crl
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