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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tar cMvf /dev/fd0 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:34:01 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn56ks4p.3d7.hdm@dishmop.noc.demon.net> References: <2h7mooa0i3.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <54989v$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dishmop.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dishmop.noc.demon.net X-URL: http://www.demon.net/ X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) On 19 Oct 1996 00:44:47 GMT, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: | Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote: | | > Does anyone know why gnutar and the fd-device won't cooperate on | > making multi-volume archives on my FreeBSD system (a recent snapshot | > kernel)? I looks like tar never receives an "end of media" message, so | > it tries to write beyond the last floppy-block. | | Probably because there's a bug in the fd driver... | | Try -L1440, or better yet, fix the bug and send me the fix. <:) Hmmm... I experienced this bug under NetBSD, too. Probably means that it's a gnu tar bug, or it's a piece of code which has remained common for some time! OTOH, I have always used this facility successfully between Linux/SunOS4, so the latter is probably the answer. If you want more details, mail me and I will try to help. -Dom -- Not speaking for Demon Internet Ltd. in any way, shape or form. Unofficial sponsor of the NOC Helpdesk: Mountain Dew, Inc.