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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 8mm and dd
- Message-ID: <p9ch76g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 22:31:41 GMT
- References: <715275893@anthrax.cs.duke.edu>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <715275893@anthrax.cs.duke.edu> jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill) writes:
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- | We have an 8mm tape drive attached via a scsi cable to our SGI IRIS 4D.
- | It seems to work as expected with the SGI backup and restore utilities and
- | with the BSD dump and restore commands. However, whenever I try the dd
- | command to write I get:
- |
- | > dd if=/etc/motd of=/dev/tape
- | dd: writer error: Invalid argument
- | 0+1 records in
- | 0+1 records out
-
- Either add 'conv=sync' or use the variable block size device (see 'man tps'
- for details on naming conventions). We defaulted the /dev/tape link
- for 8mm to fixed block size for compatibility with the only other major
- vendor shipping 8mm at the time we started shipping it.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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