On Mon, 26 May 1997, Benjamin Lorenz wrote:

> Forgot something:
> 
> What works fine:
> 
> My SCSI streamer (a Conner QIC-wide streamer, must look at home for the
> correct model name) works very well. But I cannot read tapes written
> with NetBSD under Linux ("wrong blocksize") and vice versa.
> Who sets the blocksize, how can I change it?
> 
	tar has a '-b' option to set the blocksize - you might want to
	try running tar with the same -b option on both NetBSD & linux
	to see if a tape written that way works ok...

> What does not work:
> 
> Mounting GEMDOS partitions is possible with mount_msdos, but the
> directory seems to be empty when doing an "ls". Now I read in the 
> FAQ about the -G option. What exactly does it mean?
> 
	GEMDOS is not quite the same as MSDOS. -G makes mount_msdos take
	account of those differences and work correctly on a GEMDOS
	partition.

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