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- From: shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah)
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- Subject: Re: Help! Trouble reading SUN tar archi
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:57:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul17.171652.5665@odin.corp.>, trant@shire.corp.sgi.com writes:
- |>
- |> In article <1992Jul16.063241.7543@cco.caltech.edu>, rli@cco.caltech.edu
- |> (Rongsheng Li) writes:
- |> |> The tape drive is the default 8mm
- |> |> drive. She can extract the files correctly on suns but always
- |> |> get reading error on RS6000. The same tape drive and same command
- |> |> works for tapes written on RS6000.
- |> |>
- |> |> Thanks.
- |> |>
- |> |> R. Li
- |> |>
- |>
- |>
- |> Use the no swap device. Sun's default device doesn't swap
- |> bytes and the RS6k does, as does Irix.
- |>
- |> Rgrds,
- |> --
- |> -----
- |> Ken Trant <trant@sgi.com> / Second Star to the right
- |> Senior Systems Administrator / And straight on till
- |> Information Services, / Morning
- |> Silicon Graphics, Inc / Peter Pan
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- I don't think that is the problem. I routinely make tar tapes (8mm) on SUN
- using /dev/rst0 and read it on RS/6000. You may want to check the block
- size on RS/6000, on SUN data is written in 512 bytes block. On RS/6000
- atleast under AIX 3.1.5 it use to be 1024 bytes. Change the block size
- on RS/6000 to 512 bytes.
-
- Hope this helps :-)
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