From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 14 13:42:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA06392 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 13:42:20 -0800 Received: from heather.greatbasin.com (heather.greatbasin.com [140.174.194.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06386 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 13:42:19 -0800 Received: from winky.reno.nv.us (winky.reno.nv.us [140.174.194.250]) by heather.greatbasin.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA01660; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 13:40:59 -0800 Message-Id: <199501142140.NAA01660@heather.greatbasin.com> X-Sender: Pwinky@mail.greatbasin.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:17:24 -0800 To: "Philippe Charnier" From: eblood@winky.reno.nv.us (Eric Blood) Subject: Re: tape Sun -> FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 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