From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 10: 4:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CE837B418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:04:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fACI0OT04531 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:00:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BF00FB5.70205@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:06:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: reading SGI backup tapes on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of my clients has some old SGI O2 workstations that they were using for a while. Now they need some files off DDS2 tapes that were created by the SGIs. Nothing seems capable of reading these files. FreeBSD complains about buffers not big enough to read in blocks, while the SGI machines complain that "12 errors occurred" According to the SGI backup/restore program, cpio was used to make the backups. So I've tried cpio on FreeBSD with no success. Usually I get an "Input/Output" error. The client claimed that the original DAT drive burned up, and they were never able to backup/restore with the new DAT drive that replaced it, so I have a tendency to believe that SGI DAT drive is faulty. Although this has happened with three tapes so far, I haven't ruled out the possibility that all the tapes are bad (they're 3+ years old), but before I give up completely, I just thought I'd see if anyone was familiar with this situation and had some suggestions. TIA, -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message