From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 7:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F8437B440 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA71194; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:50:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:50:18 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi buffer size - tape Message-ID: <20000825165018.A71087@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200008250850.KAA69202@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200008250850.KAA69202@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:50:04AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:50:04AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I'm trying to read a DAT tape with important backup data. > The device is a DEC TLZ04. > sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > > When trying to read it (tar tvf /dev/rsa0) I'm getting a kernel message: > > (sa0:ncr0:0:4:0): 132497-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > Any ideas? It's urgent. > > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de Sorry for the hassle. I solved it. Tape was a bit weirdly written: dd if=/dev/rsa0 ibs=256k | tar zxvf - -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message