From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 02:13:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05906 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 02:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05900 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 02:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id DAA12121; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 03:15:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 03:15:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707230915.DAA12121@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Joachim.Wunder@lrz.tu-muenchen.de (Joachim Wunder) CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reading a Solaris DAT tape with tar In-Reply-To: <9707181758.AA07352@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <9707181758.AA07352@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com