Re: Exabyte 8200 I/O Error. Wrong block size?

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From: Wilko Bulte
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:57

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davidb@cats.ucsc.edu (David N Barnett) writes:


>Hello,

>I bought a used Exabyte 8200 2.2Gb SCSI tape drive yesterday and
>am trying to determine if it's got a problem or not.

>It is recognized just fine, and can read the old data on the used tape
>that came in it, but when I try to tar or dd to it, I get a I/O error
>after a certain number of records, that number varying dependant upon 
>the block size I set.  dd fails with a message like:

>	# dd if=bigfile.tmp of=/dev/rmt1
>	dd: /dev/rmt1: I/O error
>	541+0 records in
>	540+0 records out
>	#

I think the 8200 uses blocksizes of (multiples of) 1 kbyte

You might give it a try

Wilko

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Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 I/O Error. Wrong block size?
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