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- From: craig@cactus.org (Craig T. Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Reading Sun 8mm tape on RS6000
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.022854.18481@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Aug27.121808.238@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:28:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.121808.238@dct.ac.uk> mcramm@dct.ac.uk writes:
- >I'm trying to read an 8mm (Exabyte) tape written using tar on a Sun4
- >with (I think) the tape drive set to variable byte per block in hardware.
- >It was written to /dev/nsrmt0 using SunOs4.1.x tar.
- >
- >The problem is that I'm trying to read it on our RS/6000 (Mdl 530) and can't
- >get anything to read bytes from the tape. I've tried using smit, chdev [...]
-
- No matter what the block size the tape was written with you can read it
- with the following command (works only on 8mm drives):
- chdev -l rmt0 -a block_size=0
- dd if=/dev/rmt0 bs=256k | tar -tvf -
-
- -Craig
- --
- Craig Anderson craig@cactus.org
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