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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:17:24 -0800
From:      eblood@winky.reno.nv.us (Eric Blood)
To:        "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@lirmm.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tape Sun -> FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199501142140.NAA01660@heather.greatbasin.com>

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>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 

You might try a low density device when creating the tape.  This is using
Solaris 2.3 on a new Archive 4mm to a FreeBSD machine with an old Archive
Python drive:

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0lb   <--- Solaris for tape drive 0, low density, BSD

EVB




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