From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Iversen Subject: Re: Problem with tape drive: illegal seek Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:20:34 +0100 Message-ID: <200502271320.34864.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> References: <200502260016.11954.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from port741.ds1-noe.adsl.cybercity.dk ([212.242.204.118]:50271 "EHLO boreas.iversen-net.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261379AbVB0MUv (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:20:51 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boreas.iversen-net.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470801E91F4 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:20:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from boreas.iversen-net.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (boreas.iversen-net.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28232-04 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:20:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from zephyr.iversen-net.dk (zephyr.iversen-net.dk [10.0.0.2]) by boreas.iversen-net.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:20:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200502260016.11954.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi Thanks to you both! Indeed, "dd" works when bs=10k, and tar works as long as you don't try to auto-compare it. I'll look into using --compare instead, thanks. I wonder if this is a bug or feature in tar? Should I report it? -- Regards, Christian Iversen