Hi,
this error seems to have been around a bit on the news groups but I  
see no answers only questions (yeh I've got a bible on the shelf next  
to the Koran so I could try that).

I've a DLT4000 tape drive connected to a scsi card in my sun blade  
100 running openbsd 4.2

I'm getting this error in dmesg

st0: 10240-byte record too big


When I try to write to the tape I get this error:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0
dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 1.138 secs (0 bytes/sec)

I'm guessing its a simple block size thing but if I have to set the  
block size every time It's going to be a major pain.

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /var/mail /home

was going to be my backup system :)

mt seems to be able to set the block size but I've no idea what it  
should be. Are any of you using DLT4000 tape drives under openbsd?

thanks