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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How Do I read a FreeBSD tape under Linux? (tar) Date: 7 Sep 1995 11:00:36 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 24 Message-ID: <42mjck$plb@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <mbramwel.1683.304E2134@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: mbramwel@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5806 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:173 comp.unix.bsd.misc:215 In article <mbramwel.1683.304E2134@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>, mbramwel@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes: |> I tarred a bunch of files off a pc running FreeBSD unix. |> eg: tar cvf /dev/tape * |> |> I took the same tape drive, hooked it up to linux and tried to untar the files |> eg: tar xvf /dev/tape |> |> I get an I/O error. The tape drive works ok. I can tar to & from the tape |> just fine. |> |> I think that the blocksize or something else is different between the two unix |> clones. The block size has traditionally been 10KB, and the option to choose a blocksize is 'b', so "tar xvbf 20 /dev/tape" ought to do the trick, if Linux uses some other default value. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>