From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jan 13 07:33:33 1995
Return-Path: questions-owner
Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA11799 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:33:33 -0800
Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA11793 for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:33:31 -0800
From: bmk@dtr.com
Received: (from uucp@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id HAA24959; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:32:52 -0800
Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA01489; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 07:06:55 -0800
Message-Id: <199501121506.HAA01489@dtr.com>
Subject: Re: tape Sun -> FreeBSD
To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 07:06:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199501130728.IAA11454@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at Jan 13, 95 08:28:14 am
Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 643       
Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


> Hello,

> I would like to make a tape on a Sun and restore it on FreeBSD, I tried:

> tar cvf /dev/rst0 on Sun
> tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD but It didn't work.

> Note that the following is ok:
> tar cvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD
> tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD 

> I didn't try yet (will it work?)
> tar cvf /dev/rst8 on Sun
> tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD

This is what I've done in the past, and it worked fine.

However, I didn't use the Sun drive on my FreeBSD box.  I have a wt-type
drive (Archive VP150e external).  The Sun was using an Archive Viper 150
SCSI.  This shouldn't make any difference, though.  The tape format is
the same.