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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!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: Dump/restore problem (w/Archive Anaconda) Date: 13 Jul 1997 17:49:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5qb4fe$gfr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5q5gsb$fp@news.bu.edu> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44385 rdmurphy@bu.edu () wrote: > # /sbin/restore if /dev/rst0 > Tape block size (512) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) Look at the output of ``mt status''. Try turning the drive into variable-length mode, or at least to 1024 bytes per block. -- 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. ;-)