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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar cMvf /dev/fd0
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:44:47 GMT
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Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote:

> Does anyone know why gnutar and the fd-device won't cooperate on
> making multi-volume archives on my FreeBSD system (a recent snapshot
> kernel)? I looks like tar never receives an "end of media" message, so
> it tries to write beyond the last floppy-block.

Probably because there's a bug in the fd driver...

Try -L1440, or better yet, fix the bug and send me the fix. <:)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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