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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!edi.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: adaptec 2842, exabyte 4200c, and NO SENSE Date: 8 Jul 1995 23:47:01 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3tmucl$mvt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3tha1v$q29@one.mind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Alan Laird <laird@mind.net> wrote: >I recently diagnosed my buslogic 445c controller as being weird and >decided to return it for a new one just in case it was defective. I >installed a 2842 that I had handy to hold me over until the 445c returned >from rma land. However, when I go to do a dump, I get kernel messages >that dishearten me. > >dd if=/dev/nrst0 bs=63b > >produces > >st0(ahc0:3:0): NO SENSE info 2e00 Raw (aka. `character') devices are restricted to the hardware block size. I don't know what tape drive you are operating, but 63 bytes block size doesn't seem to make any sense for me. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)