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- From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
- Message-ID: <2528@ispi.COM>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:16:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.233758.1779@crash>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.ncr
- Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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- dbg@crash.cts.com (Dave Gresham) writes:
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- >I am having a problem with bringing over a tar tape created on a NCR
- >system running Unix 1.02/3.01. I am trying to restore the tape to
- >an SCO UNIX 3.2.4 system. I keep getting Checksum errors on the SCO
- >side. I was able to generate and restore with these tapes on the
- >NCR system. I also am using the same qic-02 Archive tape drive on
- >both systems. I have tested the Archive tape drive with another tape
- >without having any problems.
-
- What tape device are you using on each machine? It sounds like you may
- have created the tape with error correction, or you may be reading the
- tape using the error correcting driver (/dev/erct0). Try using /dev/rct0
- if you haven't already (on the SCO box).
-
-
- JB
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- jbayer@ispi.COM Edison, NJ 08817
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