Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:04:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to tape drive produces invalid requests Message-ID: <20020928170452.GG7711@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020928183805.S12511-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> References: <20020928183805.S12511-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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In the last episode (Sep 28), Hartmann, O. said: > Hello. > > While writing to a tape drive unit I get this kernel log: > > (sa0:sym1:0:5:0): Invalid request. Fixed block device requests must be a multiple of 1024 bytes Try running "mt blocksize 0" to enable variable-length blocks. I think ancient QIC tape drives are the only ones that require a fixed blocksize. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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