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RE: tape drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai Harrekilde-Petersen)
Wed Apr 14 12:37:23 1999

From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <KHP@olicom.dk>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 	Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:12:14 +0200


> From: Jean Meloche [mailto:jean@stat.ubc.ca]
> 
> 
> and /var/log/messages says
> 
> Apr 13 19:32:30 nuclear kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
> 
> I also tried different block sizes with dd with the same
> result.

Try using variable block size with 'mt setblk 0'.

At least Sun and HP boxes writes tapes by default in variable block
size mode.

Regards,

Kai
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Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp@olicom.dk> #include <std/disclaimer.h> 

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