From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 1 18:49:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C2B37B6D7 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f122m2b77567; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:48:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010201213224.02e8e2e0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:41:29 -0500 To: Soren Schmidt From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: ast0: TAPE Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200102011733.SAA66640@freebsd.dk> References: <4.2.2.20010201104340.013e00d8@marble.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:33 PM 2/1/01 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > ruby2# tar -b 4096 -c -f /dev/nrast0 altq-3.0 > > tar: can't write to /dev/nrast0 : Input/output error > > > > It just gives a series of > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > ast0: bad request, must be multiple of 32768 > > > > no matter what block size I try. > >You havn't what it says to you ie 32k blocksize ie: > >tar cvbf 64 /dev/rast0 bla bla.... Thanks, yes it does work with 64, the one multiple I did not try. >I have a drive here that onstream sent me back when with docs, but to be >brutally honest the drive and especially the firmaware sucks.. Yes, I figure it was a "cheap" drive in every sense. I was hoping that it could act as a sort of backup to a backup. For my important servers, we have dat drives, and for others where the situation makes sense, we use rsync with ssh to dump the data onto big cheap IDE drives on another server. I was looking for a way to periodically backup these IDE drives and was hoping the Onstream drives would do the trick. We have had way too many bad travan tapes so we dont want to go with them. I thought I would give the onstream a try to see how it did. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message