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- From: tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody)
- Subject: Re: SunDump and A/UX's dump.bsd (actually tar)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.165900.11728@noao.edu>
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
- References: <145103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:59:00 GMT
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- In article <145103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, hatch@conan.llnl.gov (Jeff Hatch) writes:
- > 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 can read a tar file written on a Sun and vice versa, e.g. if you
- transfer the tar file via a network or uucp transfer. The problem you see
- with tapes is most likely the 8K fixed size blocking used by the Apple tc
- driver. You might want to try Jim Jagielski's hacked version of the tc
- driver, which supports 1K fixed size blocks (and maybe variable length
- blocks) either of which can be generated on a Sun. Also watch out for
- compression if your drive supports it.
-
- > A/UX's tar when used on HD floppy
- > disks is beautifully compatible with Sun's most likely due to compatible
- > floppy device drivers.
-
- This is because floppy disk has fixed size 512 byte sectors, whether it is
- read on a Sun or a Mac. Tar just writes the tar file to the raw floppy
- device.
-
- > I suspect this observation holds true for the
- > issues with A/UX's dump.bsd/restore and Sun OS's dump/restore.
-
- I think it is worse than that, the A/UX and SunOS dump/restore define
- different, incompatible tape formats.
-
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- Doug Tody National Optical Astronomy Observatories
- tody@noao.edu P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona, 85726
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