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From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bdluevel@heitec.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/106973: 'tar' cannot read own tape, but 'pax' can
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The following reply was made to PR bin/106973; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bdluevel@heitec.net>
To: mjacob@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/106973: 'tar' cannot read own tape, but 'pax' can
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:17:41 +0100

 mjacob@freebsd.org wrote:
 > 
 > Try using tar with a specified blocksize that's equal to the underlying
 > h/w blocksize on the tape.
 
 The tape's blocksize is 10 KB, which is tar's default anyway. I tried
 various other blocksizes nevertheless, to no avail; except an error in
 dmesg ("(sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 10240-byte tape record bigger than supplied
 buffer") for small blocksizes.
 
 Greetings,
 	Bernd