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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: DAT tape drives Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <Cw1Fxs.E3z@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 22:32:16 GMT References: <Cw0L3A.BL0@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 15 >Does anyone know of any compatiblity problems between Sony SD 5000 and >HP 35470A DAT tape drives. > >A friend of mine is writing the full distribution of FreeBSD to DAT using >a Sun Sparc 1000 fitted with a Sony SD 5000 DAT. The Sun is running Solaris. > >When I try reading the tape on my pc running FreeBSD 1.1(gamma), I get the >following error "128104-byte record too big". My pc has a HP 35470A DAT. I had the same problem with a Sun writing a DDS-1 tape and then reading it on a FreeBSD machine that had a DDS-2 Sony SD 5000. the Sun has too high of a default blocksize. Next time you use the Sun, specify a smaller block size. --mark.