dd problems
Greg Frazier
frazier at oahu.cs.ucla.edu
Sat Jun 22 08:44:03 AEST 1991
Hello!
Yes, it is me again, the guy who is having troubles
with his dumps. I am using dd to verify that the writes to
the tape happened correctly. Well, it seems that my troubles
are with dd, not with dump, and I'm confused. From the
keyboard, I type
prompt) dd if=/dev/rst1 of=/dev/null bs=1024
and this error msg appears on the console:
st1: Error for command 'read', Error Level: 'Fatal'
Block: 0 File Number: 0
Sense Key: No Additional Sense
Incorrect Length Indicator Set
What is a length indicator? Is this something on the tape,
or is this an undocumented parameter of dd? Any help would
be appreciated. Oh, the details: this is an exebyte drive
on a sparcstation running SunOS 4.1.1. There are multiple
files on the tape, I get this error msg no matter which
file I attempt to dd. I have also tried *not* setting
a block size on the dd (i.e. letting it be the default).
Thanks for any help.
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Greg Frazier frazier at CS.UCLA.EDU !{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier
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