On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:23:46AM +0000, Khalid Schofield wrote:
> Hi,
> this error seems to have been around a bit on the news groups but I see no
> answers only questions (yeh I've got a bible on the shelf next to the Koran
> so I could try that).
>
> I've a DLT4000 tape drive connected to a scsi card in my sun blade 100
> running openbsd 4.2
>
> I'm getting this error in dmesg
>
> st0: 10240-byte record too big
>
>
> When I try to write to the tape I get this error:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0
> dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 1.138 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
> I'm guessing its a simple block size thing but if I have to set the block
> size every time It's going to be a major pain.
>
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /var/mail /home
>
> was going to be my backup system :)
>
> mt seems to be able to set the block size but I've no idea what it should
> be. Are any of you using DLT4000 tape drives under openbsd?
>
> thanks
As mentioned in st(4), use the raw interface.
-Otto
