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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!geordan From: geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Using tar with wangdat 3100 Date: 24 May 1995 21:57:13 GMT Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3q0a3p$5tj@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maelstrom-ether.berkeley.edu I'm having problems using tar with a WangDAT 3100 SCSI tape drive. As far as I know it is at /dev/rst0. Are there any known incompatibilities with this drive? It seems like I can tar to the tape, but if I `tar -t' nothing shows up. I use `tar -c -v -f /dev/rst0', and all the files are displayed, and I assume that they're going _somewhere_. I just can't get a listing, or extract files from the tar. Error messages I have received are 'not a tar archive' and 'only read nnn bytes of header'. I'd really like to back up my filesystems because I need to resize the partitions. If anyone has any recommended commandlines for tar, please send them. Thanks, -Geordan -- +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ |Geordan Rosario. Virtually existent at geordan@ocf.berkeley.edu or | | Warped with 70274.460@compuserve.com | | OS/2! http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu:80/~geordan | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Adaptec Tech Support | The opinions expressed here are mine and may be | | *SUCKS*! | purchased for $10 each. | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | And the Unix user said, "rm -R /*" -- and all was null and void. | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+