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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
- Message-ID: <p6moenc@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 21:43:57 GMT
- References: <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- In <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> 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
- |
- | "swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
- |
- | 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?
-
- What do you mean 'fixed this'. There isn't anything to fix. Yes,
- we default (sort of silly after all this time, but since we have
- been doing it, we have to keep doing it, it is a cycle...) to
- making *links* from the byte swapping device to /dev/*tape for
- QIC drives. I have never said that this would change (although I
- would *love* to drop it, and I'd be surprised if anybody else at
- SGI had ever said it would change). We don't default to linking
- the byte swapping device for anything but QIC.
-
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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