From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 14:36:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4234B37B41B for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethel (ethel.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5EL5lL08779; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:05:47 -0700 Message-ID: <00a101c213e8$bd1d9c50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <20020614190728.E3AB05D04@ptavv.es.net> <004401c213d8$ef7b3cd0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20020614204853.GB64898@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:16:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't like that answer. May I have an alternate answer? Just kidding. Oh well. Would I be able to have the client re-write the DTF with a 64k block-size? Using MT blocksize 64 perhaps? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "David Smithson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Urgent: DTF tape drive I/O error > In the last episode (Jun 14), David Smithson said: > > Hi. Please help. I'm trying to extract files from tar archives on a Large > > DTF tape. Device info as follows: > > > > sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > > sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) > > > > When I try to read the tape, I receive the follwing error: > > > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 524288-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer > > > > Successive attempts to read the tar archives on the tape returns generic > > Input/Output error. > > You may be out of luck. FreeBSD has a 65536-byte blocksize limit on > tape devices. You _might_ be able to read it by running "dd > if=/dev/nrsa0 of=tempfile.tar bs=1m", then untarring tempfile.tar, but > chances are it won't work. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message