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- From: hatch@conan.llnl.gov (Jeff Hatch)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: SunDump and A/UX's dump.bsd
- Message-ID: <145103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:40:35 GMT
- Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV
- Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- I have tried several times take a tape written by Sun OS's 'tar' program
- and read it back with 'tar' on A/UX ... and each time have failed. Upon
- talking about it with the folks at Apple Techinal Answerline who didn't
- seem to have a clue, I have come to believe that the 'tc' device driver
- that A/UX uses is incompatible with the 'rst' driver used in Sun OS
- probably due to Apple's effort to maintain block mode compatibility with
- their old and lame 40 MB tape drive. A/UX's tar when used on HD floppy
- disks is beautifully compatible with Sun's most likely due to compatible
- floppy device drivers. I suspect this observation holds true for the
- issues with A/UX's dump.bsd/restore and Sun OS's dump/restore.
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