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From: davis@ADENOSINE.PHARM.UTAH.EDU ("Darrell R. Davis")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Reading Sparc Tapes
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Date: 15 Mar 90 20:49:36 GMT
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I recently bought a couple of Sparcstation-1's (Software compatibility
reasons) and have just today tried to read a tape written on another
Sparc onto my Iris 4D/20 ( a real graphics workstation, :-) ).  If it
had worked I wouldn't be posting this message.  In the past I have
read tapes from Sun-4's using the command line:

dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab | tar xvf -

I know that the Sparc's have a 150 meg drive, but so is the SGI drive,
so whats the problem?  I have tried both straight tar and byte
swapping.

-----Darrell R. Davis 
davis@adenosine.pharm.utah.edu
Department of Medicinal Chemistry,  University of Utah

  "Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes
   the fear of death."
                       --H.S. Thompson
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