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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!convex!news.oc.com!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Subject: Re: Tape on 386bsd... Message-ID: <Bv19sC.8wn@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX References: <14330@chalmers.se> <BuyHwy.Fn@obiwan.uucp> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 13:36:12 GMT Lines: 20 In article <BuyHwy.Fn@obiwan.uucp> bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes: >I have experienced what may be a similar problem on my system. I have a >Wangtek 5150EQ (QIC-02 controller) that appears to write tapes okay but >when I try to read back the tape (or a tape written by another system) >it appears to be missing the first 2KB of each block read. (I was using >a buffer size of 2MB as I recall). I am pretty sure this is a FAQ. Do NOT use any buffering. just tar cf /dev/wt0 and cpio -oc > /dev/wt0. There is a reason for this, but I can't find my notes. It is slow, but works. I back up 3 different 386BSD system all the time, one to a qic120, one to a qic150 (both wangtek) and one over the network. They all restore fine as long as no buffering is use. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us