From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 12 08:16:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA15636 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:16:48 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA15630 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:16:45 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id LAA20083; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:13:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:13:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: [SUMMARY] reading vmsbackup tapes To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i have read the data that i needed from the vmsbackup tape. yeah! the tool is 'vmsbackup' available from ftp://ftp.cs.uni-sb.de/pub/utils/vmsbackup.tar.Z compiles without modification, only the Makefile needs a change or two. suggested by Jean-Marc Zucconi. another possibility is 'ansitape' from comp.sources.unix. but i have not tried this program. my request was forwarded to dec, by a member of hackers. no response yet, but i'll keep looking. thanks to: Jean-Marc Zucconi Terry Lambert "Dr. Yasha Karant" "Clay D. Hopperdietzel" jmb ps one person asked how i was able to read 9 track tapes at all. i am using a kennedy 9612 scsi 9 track tape drive attached to a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 box. here's the /sbin/dmesg output ( i have added printf's to /sys/scsi /scsiconf.c:selectdev() to show device driver matching.) aha0 targ 5 lun 0: type 1(sequential) removable SCSI1 aha0 targ 5 lun 0: 0 1 : 1 1 : 1 1 : standard KENNEDY : 0 1 : st1: density code 0x2, variable(1->65536) blocks, write-protected works with mt, dd, tar, dump, restore. ;)) Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346