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From: larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SCO Can't Read 8-mm Tape Written by Ultrix.
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.153418.2197@sco.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 92 15:34:18 GMT
References: <BusMMF.12I@npt1.uucp> <1992Sep19.193954.1497@morrow.stanford.edu>
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In <1992Sep19.193954.1497@morrow.stanford.edu> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
> In article <BusMMF.12I@npt1.uucp> root@npt1.uucp writes:
> > I need to transfer data via 8-mm tape (Exebyte 8800 drives on both
> >systems) from an Ultrix 4.2A system to a SCO 3.4 system. So far, I have been
> >unable to do so.
>
> ...
> I tried reading tapes written on Suns and RS/6000s on an
> SCO system, with no success. The SCO system tells me
> "block size 0", saws thew tape back and forth, and gives up
> after three or four minutes.
Under SCO Unix 3.2v4, you can put the tape driver into variable
block mode, after which you can read tapes created on other machines
that use block sizes other than the SCO defaults.
The command to do this is
tape -a 0 setblk /dev/xStp0
After this "dd bs=whatever" will do what you expect.
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