Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:24:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Message-ID: <199604211824.UAA14779@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <v02140b0ead9ffbc2bafa@[206.104.22.146]> from "David Kelly" at Apr 21, 96 10:24:09 am
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As David Kelly wrote: > How do we determine what blocksize a tape was written with? By reading one byte, and watching the error message on the console. j@uriah 161% dd if=/dev/rst0 ibs=1 count=1 of=/dev/null dd: /dev/rst0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 2 secs (0 bytes/sec) Apr 21 20:23:10 uriah /kernel: st0: 32768-byte record too big Apr 21 20:23:10 uriah /kernel: st0: 32768-byte record too big :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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