Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:16:02 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: raymond@www.woopwoop.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sony AIT SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive on FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <20040612071602.GC76374@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200406120353.i5C3rpia015264@gw.www.woopwoop.com> References: <200406120353.i5C3rpia015264@gw.www.woopwoop.com>
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* raymond@www.woopwoop.com <raymond@www.woopwoop.com> [20040612 06:58]: wrote: > > I have added a Sony SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive to a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system. > The tape successfully does a dump and restore on this system but when > the tape is taken to a Sony SDX-400 SCSI tape drive on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE > system, restore insists that the tape blocks are 512 bytes and this is > not a multiple of 1024 (the tape was created with a -b 32). Could this be something to do with differences in ufs2 and old time ufs? 5.2.1 uses ufs2. I am not sure if that is compatible with the old ufs in 4.x - and I am not expert on file systems either ;) Just blubbing around, to see if this might be a clue... -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.
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