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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.143857.27008@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 14:38:57 GMT
- References: <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
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- rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
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- >In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
- >>checksum error. I have seen this problem before. It has to do with SGI
- >>writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.
-
- > dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
- > ^^^^^^^^^^
- > your tape name here
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- >"swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
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- >I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
- >release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
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- They do have the non-swapping device driver /dev/tapens, but /dev/tape is
- the default and does the swapping.
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- >Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- >Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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