>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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