From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 31 10:51:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16724 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16719 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12117; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:51:35 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199803311851.LAA12117@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CONTINUED problems: Restore/Dump broken? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:53:31 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:48:08 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This is in the current current. Not in CAM. We still have to use it until >we all convert to CAM, CAM is in the main branch, etc. CAM should have no effect on this problem. The old driver was able to write the blocksize you told it correctly too. >> One thing that could be biting you though is that dump defaults to a >> 10k block size while restore will default to a 32k block size. I haven't >> analyzed the source enough to see if it will properly handle cases where >> the blocksize is smaller than the default. I always explicitly specify >> the blocksize. > >As I said before, this happens with cpio too. You do: > >cd /etc;find . | cpio -H newc -ov -C 65536 -O /dev/nst2.2 I never use a sub mode tape device and the driver may well be doing something hokey. I also don't have any nst devices. Only nrst and rst. 8-) The nrst2 device should have the default density for the device which, for DDS-* drives should be what you want. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message