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- From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Reading on RS600 8mm tape written on SUN sparc
- Message-ID: <21@shady.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 03:05:24 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.022438.1735@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Jul17.144407.15931@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
- Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.
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- :In article <1992Jul17.144407.15931@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- :>
- :>In article <1992Jul16.022438.1735@cco.caltech.edu>
- :>rli@cco.caltech.edu (Rongsheng Li) writes:
- :>>
- :>> My wife is having some some trouble to read a tar file from
- :>> the 8mm tape on a 6000. The tape was originally written on
- :>> a sun sparc station by simply using "tar cvf tapedevice files"
- :>
- :>Make sure the IBM drive's block size is set to 1024 or 0
- :>(variable).
-
- The tapes were most likely written with an 8k block size. They can be read
- by using SMIT to change the block size on the drive to match the size the
- tapes were written with (not necessarily 1024) or by changing the block
- size to zero (as C.H. writes).
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