Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:04:48 -0400 From: Michael C Voorhis <mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reading DLT tapes with very large block sizes. Message-ID: <201109220204.p8M24mWo013345@cs.wpi.edu>
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Hi all, I've been given a set of DLT tapes written with data in fixed 8Mb blocks. I have been unable to convince any OS to read these tapes, and yet I need to read them. Most tape drivers refuse to work with block sizes that are even a fraction of this blocksize. The tapes were created on a Linux machine several years ago using the AMANDA tape backup system. Can anyone offer davice on how I might go about reading these tapes. I'm fine with patching code and installing an altered sa driver, but I lack sufficient knowledge of how the scsi tape driver functions. I'm entirely willing and able to build a machine specifically to read these tapes. Any help, clues, guidance, etc would be wonderful. Thanks, Mike Voorhis (mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu)
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