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- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!gryphon
- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:32:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.183241.22545@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Dec11.233758.1779@crash> <2528@ispi.COM>
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- jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
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- >dbg@crash.cts.com (Dave Gresham) writes:
-
- >>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).
-
- It may be a blocking factor thing. Create a tar tape on the SCO system, and
- see if it reads on the NCR. If it does, look at the blocking factor of the
- read. SCO will default to a block size of 20, but 20 of what is the problem.
- If the NCR reads it at a blocking factor of 2, then you have to create the NCR
- tar tape with a block size of 2 to make the SCO system read it.
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