Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:49:52 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: "Kenneth D. Fallot" <fallot@ecc.nyseg.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, kdfallot@nyseg.com Subject: Re: tar to scsi tape ( freebsd to other unix ) Message-ID: <199608201549.LAA13065@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:26:37 EDT." <3219D92D.794BDF32@ecc.nyseg.com>
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-------- "Kenneth D. Fallot" uttered with conviction: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--------------1CFBAE3959E2B60015FB7483 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I am having trouble with using tar.. > > If I create a tar tape ( scsi ) on any of my freebsd boxes I get a > I/O error when trying to read tape on another unix os I have some > UnixWare and Linux boxes which both give me grief attached is a copy > of dmesg output to show my dat tape model and other neat info .... > > please help .. Is this supposed to work ????? Interesting, I do this regularly. What command are you using to save to the tape/get from the tape? One thing that might help is to use a known blocksize. Some unixs have different ideas about blocksize. Also somthing to look at is byte swapping. you can use dd to get around this problem with the swab command. -branson -- ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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