Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Sep 17 14:35:00 proxy02 kernel: st0: Write not multiple of tape block
> size.
> What does it mean ?
Your tape is in block mode. Writes must be in a multible of
the block size. E.g. blocksize is 10K, then all writes must
be n*10K big, with n being an integer (1,2,3,4....).
You explicitely do set the size:
> > > # A compressing DAT (DDS-1-DC or DDS-2)
> > > manufacturer=HP model = "C1533A" {
> > > scsi2logical=1 can-bsr can-partitions auto-lock
> > > mode1 blocksize=1024 compression=1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > }
and the tape uses it:
> Sep 17 14:23:40 proxy02 kernel: st0: Default block size set to 1024
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> bytes.
^^^^^
Now, using
> > > # dd if=foo.tgz of=/dev/st0 bs=1024
will produce stuff like
first 1024 bytes of foo.tgz
second 1024 bytes of foo.tgz
third 1024 bytes of foo.tgz
.... 1024 bytes ....
LAST 888 bytes of foo.tgz
^^^^
So the last block is not padded to that size.
Either go into variable block size (and I doubt a block size
of 1 K is a good value, but YMMV) or pad the last block using
dd ..... conv=sync
tar .... --blocking-factor=2 (for 2*512 byte block
size, see "info tar")
which should do the trick.
-Wolfgang
