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- From: jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 8mm and dd (thanks for the help)
- Message-ID: <715371401@anthrax.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:16:42 GMT
- Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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- Just to be sure people understand how our problem was resolved, here
- is the solution. We installed a third party 8mm on our SGI machine, and by
- default the /dev/tape file was linked to /dev/rmt/tps1d5ns. As John Merritt
- pointed out in his first reply posting, one can get this error if one
- has a block size mismatch. So, after looking more carefully at the
- man page for tps and determining how to translate the names of the tape
- device files in /dev/rmt, I linked /dev/tape to /dev/rmt/tps1d5nsv (note
- the "v" on the end of the name) which is the variable block size tape device.
- This works. Thanks for all the responses.
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