Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 03:15:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Joachim.Wunder@lrz.tu-muenchen.de (Joachim Wunder) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reading a Solaris DAT tape with tar Message-ID: <199707230915.DAA12121@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <9707181758.AA07352@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <9707181758.AA07352@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de>
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Joachim Wunder writes:
> I am having problems reading a tar tape on a 90m DAT which was written under
> Solaris 2.4 with tar, too. I have a Sony SDT 5000.
>
> tar simply gives me
>
> tar: read error on molonita:/dev/nrst0 : Input/output error
>
> Of course I played around with the blocksize and tried to run dd before
> calling tar, but nothing worked so far. :(
>
> Please could anyone enlighten me, please?
This might be a fixed vs. variable blocksize problem; this used to bite
me going between SunOS and HP-UX. I know the blocksize is configurable
on Solaris by editing a control file for the SCSI tape driver, I just
don't remember which file.
Any tape experts out there than can help with this on the FreeBSD side?
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