On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:52:49AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> Sorry, I posted this already in 'questions' but since it is very urgent to
> my tape read back withing the next couple of hours I'm posting my plea
> here also:
>
>
> I'm trying to read a DAT tape with important backup data.
> The device is a DEC TLZ04.
> sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> sa0: <DEC TLZ04 1989(C)DEC 1915> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers
>
> When trying to read it (tar tvf /dev/rsa0) I'm getting a kernel message:
>
> (sa0:ncr0:0:4:0): 132497-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer
>
> Any ideas?
The tape has probably been written by a non-FreeBSD machine. Like an SGI or
something like that. They can do much larger blocksizes. I think FreeBSD is
limited to 64k (??).
W/
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