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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
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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. ;-)