Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:06:51 +1000 From: "Rob Secombe" <robseco@teksupport.net.au> To: "FreeBSD ISP" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Wierd tape drive behaviour Message-ID: <NBBBJDABOGIOHMHPBBAGKECKCHAA.robseco@teksupport.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009060834480.13029-100000@guru.citec.qld.gov.au>
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Hi Colin, It would fail just doing a 'tar cv /etc'. The weird thing was that it would intermittently work. I have never had this problem with previous versions of FreeBSD, it must be a new 'feature' in 4.0. I just tried the -b 128 option and it did work so I have included it in the backup script and will watch it over the next couple of days. Thanks Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Colin Campbell [mailto:sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au] Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2000 8:37 To: Rob Secombe Subject: Re: Wierd tape drive behaviour Hi, My first guess is that you need to write blocks > 53527 bytes to the tape drive. Without seeing your "tar" command I can only guess that you need to add something like "-b 128" to the command. Colin On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Rob Secombe wrote: > > > >I have recently built a 'samba server' based on FreeBSD 4.0 for one of our > customers. All is working perfectly except for the backup. The customer had > an Wangdat 3100 in their old Novell server which they asked if we could > use. As that amount of data they had to back up would easily fit and the > tape drive was working fine with Novell/Arcserve, I said "sure". I spoke > too soon. The tape subsystem intermitently works but the majority of the > time it reports ther following error. > > > >/usr/bin/tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Invalid argument > > > >and syslogs: > > > >(sa0:sym0:0:6:0): Invalid request. Variable block device requests must be > between 53257 and -1 bytes kk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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