Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:24:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: wjw@IAEhv.nl Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) Message-ID: <19980702172457.E14070@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807020736.JAA10898@surf.IAE.nl>; from Willem Jan Withagen on Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:36:27AM %2B0200 References: <19980702100116.F13424@freebie.lemis.com> <199807020736.JAA10898@surf.IAE.nl>
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On Thursday, 2 July 1998 at 9:36:27 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > You ( Greg Lehey ) write: > => On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 10:49:55 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > => > In article <list.freebsd.hackers#11724.899262125@time.cdrom.com> you write: > => >>> I have actual working code for this. > => >>> At the moment every variantlink gets replaced by '2.2.6', since that is my > => >>> current OS version. > => >> > => >> That's really cool! Apollo, here we come! ;-) > => > > => > Just look for the Apollo FAQ and see why I'm chasing this one down. > => > :-D. I just loved my Domain babies. > => > > => > [[ Now If could only read back my old Apollo-tars at 20 blocks = 10Kbyte. :-( > => > => What's the problem? I've heard of nightmares with Apollo tapes, and I > => currently have a set of Domain OS 10.4 tapes here which I need to copy > => (Mike, are you listening?). > > The tapes were written on a DAT (old non compressing) but for writting them > I had to specify tar cbf 20 /dev/tape > And I think it is this blocking factor which prevents me from even dd-ing > data from the tape. :-( Shouldn't be. That's the FreeBSD default. Are you sure that you haven't written on a device with non-standard compression or some such? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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