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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom3!ceb From: ceb@netcom3.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1R & Low Density Tape ? In-Reply-To: thuy@starbase.neosoft.com's message of 18 Aug 1994 02:32:18 GMT Message-ID: <CEB.94Aug18094758@netcom3.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto References: <32uh7i$95r@uuneo.neosoft.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 16:47:57 GMT Lines: 22 In article <32uh7i$95r@uuneo.neosoft.com> thuy@starbase.neosoft.com (Thuy Mai) writes: I am using FreeBSD 1.1R, if I tar a tape & using high density tape (250MB), I works fine. It does not work if I use low density (150MB) tape & it displays this message: tar: can't write to /dev/rst0 : Invalid argument As I understand it, the only difference between 6250's (=250 MB) and 6150's (=150 MB) is the length -- they look identical to the drive. On the other hand, the drive can tell on a hardware basis the difference between a 60MB and a 150 MB (I'd love to know how, since someone passed offf 60MB's as 150MB's on me once, and they work fine, but I can't reproduce that with other carts), and if you try to write a 60 MB, you get exactly that message. Are you sure you haven't got your lengths confused? --