Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:57:54 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape buffer size - scsi Message-ID: <20000825205754.E605@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200008250852.KAA69212@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:52:49AM %2B0200 References: <200008250852.KAA69212@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:52:49AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Sorry, I posted this already in 'questions' but since it is very urgent to > my tape read back withing the next couple of hours I'm posting my plea > here also: > > > I'm trying to read a DAT tape with important backup data. > The device is a DEC TLZ04. > sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > sa0: <DEC TLZ04 1989(C)DEC 1915> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > > When trying to read it (tar tvf /dev/rsa0) I'm getting a kernel message: > > (sa0:ncr0:0:4:0): 132497-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > Any ideas? The tape has probably been written by a non-FreeBSD machine. Like an SGI or something like that. They can do much larger blocksizes. I think FreeBSD is limited to 64k (??). W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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