From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 00:55:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27298 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27271 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA14495; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:24:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980702172457.E14070@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:24:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: wjw@IAEhv.nl Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) References: <19980702100116.F13424@freebie.lemis.com> <199807020736.JAA10898@surf.IAE.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807020736.JAA10898@surf.IAE.nl>; from Willem Jan Withagen on Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:36:27AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 July 1998 at 9:36:27 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > You ( Greg Lehey ) write: > => On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 10:49:55 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > => > In article you write: > => >>> I have actual working code for this. > => >>> At the moment every variantlink gets replaced by '2.2.6', since that is my > => >>> current OS version. > => >> > => >> That's really cool! Apollo, here we come! ;-) > => > > => > Just look for the Apollo FAQ and see why I'm chasing this one down. > => > :-D. I just loved my Domain babies. > => > > => > [[ Now If could only read back my old Apollo-tars at 20 blocks = 10Kbyte. :-( > => > => What's the problem? I've heard of nightmares with Apollo tapes, and I > => currently have a set of Domain OS 10.4 tapes here which I need to copy > => (Mike, are you listening?). > > The tapes were written on a DAT (old non compressing) but for writting them > I had to specify tar cbf 20 /dev/tape > And I think it is this blocking factor which prevents me from even dd-ing > data from the tape. :-( Shouldn't be. That's the FreeBSD default. Are you sure that you haven't written on a device with non-standard compression or some such? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message