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- From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Help needed reading Sun 8mm tape on rs6000
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.161821.248@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 15:18:21 GMT
- Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
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- 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 and tctl
- to set the bytes per block to variable, but nothing produces anything from the
- tape on read. Can anyone suggest any further action I could take. PLEASE!
- (P.S. we 're running AIX 3.1)
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Angus
-
- Angus M. Marshall,
- e-mail: MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.CC.VAXB
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- Phone: (+44 382) 308000 ext. 2265 or (+44 382) 308600 \\ //
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