Re: From Anxious StsAdmi: dd does't work with tape drive?????

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:35:13 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jiang Qian <address@hidden>
> 
>       tar cvf - temp | ssh cmtq8 "dd of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k"
>       dd: writing `/dev/nst0': Invalid argument

Most likely dd is getting a partial block off the network, and then
trying to write the partial block to the tape.  That is a no-no.

Try "obs=64k" instead of "bs=64k".