Re: From Anxious StsAdmi: dd does't work with tape drive?????

[Jiang Qian]

problem solved, you rock!

Jiang

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:35:13 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Jiang Qian <address@hidden>
> >
> >     tar cvf - temp | ssh cmtq8 "dd of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k"
> >     dd: writing `/dev/nst0': Invalid argument
>
> Most likely dd is getting a partial block off the network, and then
> trying to write the partial block to the tape.  That is a no-no.
>
> Try "obs=64k" instead of "bs=64k".
>