Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:58:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bob Badaracco <rjb@typeline.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD tar archives under Solaris 2.6... Message-ID: <19990420115833.H40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <371BDB44.42D8E114@typeline.com>; from Bob Badaracco on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:41:24PM -0400 References: <371BDB44.42D8E114@typeline.com>
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[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
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