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- From: trant@shire.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: 8mm Tape Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.235833.3964@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 23:58:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.220113.4642@newstand.syr.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. Data Center Operations
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- Look at the device being written to. It could be that the machine
- has /dev/tape pointing to a no-swap device. Sun doesn't do byte
- swapping but other systems do (SGI for one). So try using the
- specific device instead of /dev/tape.
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- Ken Trant <trant@sgi.com> / Second Star to the right
- Senior Systems Administrator / And straight on till
- Information Services, / Morning
- Silicon Graphics, Inc / Peter Pan
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