From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 15:24:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88BD37B412 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethel (ethel.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5EMDWL09248 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:13:32 -0700 Message-ID: <00e001c213f2$3414ffc0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614212821.GD64898@dan.emsphone.com> <00af01c213eb$e037a2a0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614214208.GA72247@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:24:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you, Dan. I'll let them know and give it a shot. Any idea why FreeBSD's tape devices are limited to 64k block-size? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "David Smithson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error > In the last episode (Jun 14), David Smithson said: > > > That would definitely work, yes. If they're using tar, have them > > > run something like "tar cvb 128", which will give you 64k blocks on > > > tape. > > > > Does it matter how the DTF is formatted? Or is that a hardware-level > > thing? I mean, should I have them set the blocksize with MT before > > they format the tape? Then write the tar archive with the block-size > > at 128? > > SCSI drives are almost always variable-blocked nowadays. Telling tar > the blocksize should be all you need to do. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message