On Mon, Nov 25 1996 10:16 AM you wrote:
>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:57:18 -0800 (PST)
>>From: "Gerald C. Simmons" <simmons@darykon.wa.com>
>>
>>I have an Archive 150 tape drive talking to an Adaptec 2842VL controller. Tar
>>seems to write the tape o.k. until it wants to close the device. I get:
>>
>>	tar (child): can't write to /dev/rst0 : Input/output error
>>
>>And in messages I get:
>>
>>	Nov 24 10:08:19 dakkon /netbsd: st0: bad request, must be multiple of 512
>>
>>What does this mean???
>
>It means that neither tar nor the st driver is padding the last data
>block written to the tape to 512 bytes, as required by the driver.
>-- 
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Is someone already working to fix this? Or how would one go about fixing
this?

Gerry Simmons