Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:32 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Subject: Re: Quantum tape drive Message-ID: <20090128220132.GA74970@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20090128214938.GE63837@dan.emsphone.com> References: <ae4324ed0901281136v80fd634t1cbed1f73170c2ef@mail.gmail.com> <20090128202349.GD63837@dan.emsphone.com> <ae4324ed0901281238u4f1a1ddo400407115e6491f2@mail.gmail.com> <20090128214938.GE63837@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:49:39PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 28), Jaime said: > > > > Thanks. Would this decrease the ability of other Unixes being able > > to read the tape? For example, using pax (which can read tar > > archives) or GNU's tar? > > It shouldn't. At worst you may have to specify a matching blocksize > argument when reading. I once had problems with an SGI user writing tapes with megabyte block size. Works on ancient SGI IRIX but nowhere else that I know of. Worse, IRIX remembered the last block size used on a tape device, across multiple users. Learned to always set block size when writing else no telling how it would go. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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