DD and Memory

[Charles Carroll]

	All,

	I have managed to sort out some of the problems with dd and a raw dump 
to tape drives, only to come up with another one.

	I now get a memory allocation error when I try to run dd.  In order to 
get the tape device to work I loaded the mt package, this allows me
to set the block size of the device to 0. What this actually does is 
make the block size for the tape drive variable. (no fixed size). When 
I try to do dd now instead of an input/output error I now see the tape 
drive spin up, and read access occur, but the program errors out with 
the memory allocation error.  I have checked the drive using the scsi 
generic device driver and all the commands are going correctly. This 
does work on an intel machine under Mandrake 9.

	Suggestions? Comments?

	Charlie Carroll