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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:35:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions)
Subject:   Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape
Message-ID:  <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com>

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I have encountered a problem trying to install a system with the
2.0.5-0622-SNAP from an Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (connected to
a BusLogic BT-747S SCSI controller).  It gets to the point where
it is trying to extract data from the tape and then fails with the
message:

st0: 10240-byte record too big

Is it likely that the problem is truly the blocksize?  This (10240
bytes) appears to be tar's default blocksize.  Should I specify a
different blocking factor when creating the tar tape of the
distribution?

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Willcox
bob@luke.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net)
Austin, TX



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