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[Andrew Perrin]

Does the -o option to gnu tar help?  But I would also think it wouldn't be
so hard to plug the sun drive into your SCSI controller if you think the
problem is the drive.

ap

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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:

> It's different drives.  I have a sun 8mm tape drive, but the workstation no
> longer boots.  I don't think I can hook a tape sun drive up to an x86 pci
> SCSI controller without some bios adjustments.  So, I'm using a different
> drive on an x86 linux box.
> tar does not seem to be quite tar between solaris 2.x and debian sarge.
> Both drives, however, use the same 112m 8mm tapes.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> >Is it the same physical drive moved to a linux box or a different drive?
> >Maybe the old drive used hardware compression which the new drive
> >doesn't do or software compression (tar -czvf ) was used so now you
> >would need tar -tzf /dev/st0 (or whatever your tape device is). Just
> >some thoughts, none guaranteed to be correct.
>
> >glenn
> Doug Newcomb
> USFWS
> Raleigh, NC
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