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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <54989v$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <2h7mooa0i3.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)