Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:36:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) Message-ID: <199807020736.JAA10898@surf.IAE.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980702100116.F13424@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 2, 98 10:01:16 am"
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You ( Greg Lehey ) write: => On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 10:49:55 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: => > In article <list.freebsd.hackers#11724.899262125@time.cdrom.com> you write: => >>> I have actual working code for this. => >>> At the moment every variantlink gets replaced by '2.2.6', since that is my => >>> current OS version. => >> => >> That's really cool! Apollo, here we come! ;-) => > => > Just look for the Apollo FAQ and see why I'm chasing this one down. => > :-D. I just loved my Domain babies. => > => > [[ Now If could only read back my old Apollo-tars at 20 blocks = 10Kbyte. :-( => => What's the problem? I've heard of nightmares with Apollo tapes, and I => currently have a set of Domain OS 10.4 tapes here which I need to copy => (Mike, are you listening?). The tapes were written on a DAT (old non compressing) but for writting them I had to specify tar cbf 20 /dev/tape And I think it is this blocking factor which prevents me from even dd-ing data from the tape. :-( Maybe I'll have to go to somebody with a driver which does 10K blocks? --WjW -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 12.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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