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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Cartridge Tape Drive, QIC-24 format (SCO UNIX)
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.141950.14110@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 90 14:19:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec16.205824.19311@sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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Keywords: QIC Cartiridge

In article <1990Dec16.205824.19311@sj.ate.slb.com> konath@sj.ate.slb.com () writes:
>I then used Sun "tar" to store a few files on the tape and took it
>back to my 386 but I found that I always got an IO read error.  I
>tried recording using cpio format but found that the Sun would read
>the tape but when I used the Sun to store data,  I could not read the
>tape on my PC. 

The key may be the device that you use to write the tape.  /dev/rst8 
uses QIC-24 format while /dev/rst0 uses another format.  Use /dev/rst8.


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