From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 18 13:30:02 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01866 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:30:02 -0700 Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01859 ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:30:02 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:30:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199506182030.NAA01859@freefall.cdrom.com> From: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Reply-To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org To: freebsd-bugs Subject: misc/530: Failed install from SCSI tape In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:33:01 -0400 <199506182033.QAA03447@rigel> Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 530 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Failed install from SCSI tape >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 18 13:30:01 1995 >Originator: Daniel M. Eischen >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950603 i386 >Environment: 90 MHz Pentium box 2940W SCSI controller HP 1533C DAT tape drive >Description: When installing from tape (from the boot disk installation menu), I had placed the tape in the drive before booting. After I went through the various menus and finally got to the COMMIT, when it started reading from the tape, I got an error message: 10240-byte block too large. Well words to that effect. The default blocking factor for tar is 20 512-byte blocks, so if we cannot install as that, then the Install document should be updated to ensure the user makes the tape correctly. I remade the tape on another system with a blocking factor of 1. I went through the same exact procedure again and it worked fine. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Either fix the documentation (?) or the SCSI tape driver. Correcting the documentation is simple, but it seems like you'd really like to be able to handle tapes of default block size. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: