From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 14:13:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D03337B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from stimpy.hamanndonald.com (dsl-57.PEAK.ORG [198.88.146.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925F943EC2 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com) Received: from jackson (jackson.forestry.oregonstate.edu [128.193.116.124]) by stimpy.hamanndonald.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gBJMDd228035 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com) Message-ID: <002b01c2a7ab$e2222550$7c74c180@forestry.oregonstate.edu> From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: Subject: cygwin tar <-> FreeBSD tar? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:38 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a FreeBSD machine at home with a 4mm tape drive that I have tar'd files as follows: tar cvf /dev/sa0 /usr/home/me/project and it works just fine as you might expect. I also have an Win2k machine at work that I perform the same operation on, tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/home/me/project and it works just fine. The problem occurs when I try to use a tape tht was tar'd on one machine the other. I get the following messages on both machines when trying to read a tape produced in the other machine. C:\>tar tvf /dev/st0 tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Bad file descriptor tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The NT tar is the cygwin tar and the FreeBSD tar is the standard one that come with FreeBSD 4.4 What settings do I need to provide to make the tapes readable on the other system? Jeff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message