The following reply was made to PR pkg/33731; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33731: smbtar -v to tape makes corrupted archives
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:11:52 -0700

 I should clarify that I am using "smbtar -t -" and piping that to
 "dd conv=osync" in order to write blocks with the tape drive block size,
 which is a multiple of the tar block size, because the maximum tar block
 size is so small.
 
 I don't think this problem would affect "smbtar -t /dev/nrst0"
 
 Ben