frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) (06/22/91)
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. -- Greg Frazier frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU !{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (06/23/91)
frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes: > 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 This is not an error message from dd. It is probably an error message from the device driver for the tape drive (or scsi drive if the tape drive is hung off the scsi bus). I would guest that the data was written to tape with a larger block size than you are reading it with. Try to increase bs (set it equal to the blocking factor used in makeing the tape). >file I attempt to dd. I have also tried *not* setting >a block size on the dd (i.e. letting it be the default). This would be worse because dd usually defaults to 512. -- I guess these are the views of VTI - since it is my consulting company. Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 uunet!virtech!cpcahil Virtual Technologies, Inc. 46030 Manekin Plaza Sterling, VA 22170