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- From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
- Subject: Re: Reading on RS600 8mm tape written on SUN sparc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.061815.16802@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
- References: <1992Jul16.022438.1735@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Jul17.144407.15931@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <21@shady.UUCP> <1992Jul25.124140.19805@cti-software.nl>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:18:15 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
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- >kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith) writes:
-
- >>:>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).
-
- >You can read (and write) a tape in any blocksize regardless of
- >how it's set in SMIT using tctl, like in
- > tctl -p 5120 -b 1024 -f /dev/rmt0.1 | tar -xvf -
-
- >Our 8mm drive is set to blocksize 512, the installation release
- >notes say this is required for mksysb. But this make your 8mm drive
- >into a 1.1 GB drive!
-
- >So I use tctl with cpio tar and backup to make sure I can go to 2.3GB.
- >--
- >Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl
- >CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ctisbv!pim
- >Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302
- >2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837
-
- So how do you get 2.3 GB on a tape ??? Do you have to use cpio and
- tar or could you only use tar and change the block size to ????
-
- G'Day
- Louis Verhagen
- vla@waves.ce.adfa.oz.au
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