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- From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
- Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:42:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.014252.1261@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1992Dec11.233758.1779@crash> <2528@ispi.COM>
- Organization: Unix in NYC
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- In article <2528@ispi.COM> jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
- >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).
-
- Am I wrong, or are we dealing here with an incompatibility of the
- bytestream seen as big-endian on the NCR box, vs. little-endian on the SCO
- machine?
-
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