From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 21:16:57 2003 Return-Path: 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 2896C16A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBC644022 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B082D2BD41 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:16:53 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2596851835; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:47:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:47:50 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Frank Jahnke Message-ID: <20030926041750.GC15308@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1064527385.223.149.camel@zinfandel.fmjassoc.com> <20030926021639.GU32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1064547888.223.189.camel@zinfandel.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jousvV0MzM2p6OtC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1064547888.223.189.camel@zinfandel.fmjassoc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Tape Conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:16:57 -0000 --jousvV0MzM2p6OtC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 20:44:48 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:03:05 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: >>> I have an old 9 track tape that, as luck would have it, contains a >>> substantial amount of code that is now of interest to me. Does anyone >>> have a recommendation for someone who might either to transfer it to a >>> CD, or to make it available by ftp? The file contents are all in tar >>> format, written from a Sun cluster under SunOS in the Sun 3 era >>> (remember those days?) >> >> The biggest problem is to find a tape unit which can read the files. >> Do you have one? If so, what's it like? > > I don't have such a drive, and that's the issue (other than the age of > the tape). I have had one kind response from from a newsgroup member > who has the hardware, and is willing to do the conversion. I'll let you > know how it turns out, if you like. I suppose it could be interesting. Note the footer of my message, which you copied: >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. >> Given the capacity of such tapes, your best bet is probably to read in >> the entire tape to disk with dd, and then play around with it. If >> it's tar, you should be able to read it directly. >> > The tape is largely empty; I would guess that it has only about 5 MB of > info on it. It was my thought to do as you suggest, but I have not > talked in detail with the offerer. May I send your note along? Sure, the message was public, and it'll be archived on the web. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers --jousvV0MzM2p6OtC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/c73uIubykFB6QiMRAqw1AJ9JQyaVkIYTQhT6+iTtWPeR0kXYxgCgleXu 4Jjzzhsvlb8JjwLFnn5G708= =2TV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jousvV0MzM2p6OtC--