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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Tape on 386bsd...
Message-ID: <BuyHwy.Fn@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 92 01:38:57 GMT
References: <14330@chalmers.se>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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In article <14330@chalmers.se> dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) writes:
> <about problems with reading tapes>
I have experienced what may be a similar problem on my system. I have a
Wangtek 5150EQ (QIC-02 controller) that appears to write tapes okay but
when I try to read back the tape (or a tape written by another system)
it appears to be missing the first 2KB of each block read. (I was using
a buffer size of 2MB as I recall). This failure seems to happen with
dd, cpio, tar. Unfortunately, I have not had the time to work on the
problem since discovering the missing 2KB at the front of each block.
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