On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:27:01AM -0400, vom513 wrote: > > I had posted about this a while ago. In short - writing to a real SCSI tape > drive on recent/release NetBSD works. Reading the archive back always > results in tar header errors (regardless of blocksize etc). >
Sorry, I am not seeing this problem with my set up here, I have: uname -a NetBSD siren 10.99.12 NetBSD 10.99.12 (SIREN) #0: Tue Dec 3 15:23:12 ACDT 2024 toor@siren:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SIREN amd64 (yes, old but in the timeframe you state) ahc0 at pci5 dev 1 function 0: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter and scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle... st0 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0: <HP, Ultrium 4-SCSI, W51D> tape removable I have a tar archive written by this kernel and it is readable: gtar tvf /dev/rst0v drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2022-06-13 15:32 ./ drwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 2025-06-04 16:11 ./Multimedia/ drwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 2025-11-19 15:10 ./Multimedia/@Recycle/ -rwxrwxrwx root/wheel 78 2025-11-19 15:10 ./Multimedia/@Recycle/desktop.ini I have also restored files from backups using dump without an issue. Can you please provide information about what scsi adaptor and tape drive you are using? -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
