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- From: george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
- Message-ID: <GEORGE.92Sep4124657@tusk.med.harvard.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:46:57 GMT
- References: <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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- In-reply-to: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu's message of 29 Aug 92 14:38:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.143857.27008@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
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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.
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- > 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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- Here's what I use to read sun tapes via an sgi tape drive:
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- # to get sun cartridge tape tar files from SGI's
- alias gettarsgi 'rsh -n \!:1 dd if=/dev/nrtapens bs=20b | tar xvBfb - 20'
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- George Planansky
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
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