From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 20:44:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E502637B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alan@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA34i6h01039 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:44:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:44:06 -0800 From: Alan Batie To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Writing to tape gets Invalid Argument Message-ID: <20001102204405.A880@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to backup a 4.1-RELEASE system to a : sa1: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) (20/40G DAT) After about 370Meg, I get: Backing up the system... tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. tar: Removing leading / from absolute links Total bytes written: 369643520 tar (child): can't write to /dev/rsa1 : Invalid argument I used ktrace to verify that it is the write system call to the tape that gets the error... Any suggestions? -- Alan Batie ______ www.rdrop.com/users/alan Me alan@batie.org \ / www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A \ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ www.anti-spam.net NO SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message