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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

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