From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 19:31:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6B61563D for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA21131; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:58:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA45087; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:58:33 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990420115833.H40482@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:58:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bob Badaracco , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD tar archives under Solaris 2.6... References: <371BDB44.42D8E114@typeline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <371BDB44.42D8E114@typeline.com>; from Bob Badaracco on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:41:24PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 21:41:24 -0400, Bob Badaracco wrote: > I've just moved my 1/4" DDS tape drive from my old FBSD 2.0.5 box to > a another machine that's running Solaris 2.6 (Intel). I'm able to > create and read new tar archives created on the Solaris box, > however, I'm not able to read old tar files originally created with > the same drive under FBSD. What happens? Can you dd them to /dev/null? > From reading the Solaris man pages it does seem like a tape density > issue. Can any of you tape experts give me a clue where to start? The first clue is: always describe the problem as fully as you can. There are a number of reasons why this might fail, but I can't guess which. > Content-Description: Card for Bob Badaracco Is this really necessary? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message