10 Feb
2008
10 Feb
'08
9:07 a.m.
On Sunday 10 February 2008 05:51, Doc Shipley wrote:
g-wright at att.net wrote:
I might add that some (all?) QIC cartridge tapes (DC600 I know is in
this group) use fixed block sizes, so tape copy doesn't really get you
anything over using dd to copy the tape into a (bunch of) file(s) and
back, or straight tape-to-tape. From what I remember, those drives
seemed to like a 32k block size too.
Pat
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I have been playing with Eric Smith
"TapeCopy" and some cartridge
tapes.After reading them, when I try to write them, I get an error
message that the tape image is too long for the for the 32768 byte
buffer . I'm running it on a linux machine ver is RedHat 7.2. Not
to sure why ??? tapes where DC600 (60 Meg).
Check the drive's block size ("mt" command in RH7.2), on reads as
well as writes. Every time I've had trouble with TapeCopy, that was
the problem.