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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drives? Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:32:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5e7qsr$qo0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32F7A06D.79D4@iphase.com> <5ddai0$jrb@hpax.cup.hp.com> <32FEAF5E.59E2B600@sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35670 dave blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote: > The problem is that while the zip drive works great as sd1, TAR can't > properly write multi volume backups to it. It writes the backup (using > tar -M etc) but can't retrieve more than one volume at a time. Small > details I guess. That's probably a problem with the EOF (on write) handling in the sd driver. I remember that i've been fixing a similar problem in the fd driver very recently -- it used to be there for years now! You should always be able to get it working correctly by also specifying the -L kilobytes option to tar -M. You most likely also need it to read the archive back, however. Are your problems with the multi-volume tar files accompanied by some SCSI error messages in syslog when you hit the end of a medium? -- 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. ;-)