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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes
Message-ID: <4750@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 90 14:42:34 GMT
References: <87@joymrmn.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In article <87@joymrmn.UUCP> root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:
:I have a number of 60MB tapes which were written on a SUN. (I have
:no idea which one).  They were written in tar format.  When I use
:tar under Xenix 386, they come up as unreadable.
:
:Any help would be appreciated.
:
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You probably need to specify the full device as:
	tar -xvf /dev/rct0 ...

The device /dev/erct0 is error correcting and will not read tapes
created without the error correcting information.
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