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From: jw@crystal1.UUCP (John S. Wainscott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: NCR Tape Formats
Keywords: Tape Quick-24 tar cpio formats compatibility
Message-ID: <115@crystal1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 22:13:03 GMT
References: <9906@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Software Clearing House;Cinti.,OH
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In article <9906@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, petej@itcode.Eng.Sun.COM (Pete Jolly) writes:
> I am having problems reading my NCR Tower 1/4 inch
> cartridge tapes on other Unix machines (such as
> Sun equipment). 
> 
> tar: directory checksum error (1 != 5663)
> 

I've seen this quite a bit when dealing with Towers.  If you create a tape
on a Tower and want to load it on another Unix machine use this:

dd if=/dev/[whatever] conv=swab | tar xvf -

This will do some byte swapping so the checksum will come out correctly.
You can use this command on the Tower while trying to load a tape from
another system.

John Wainscott
Software Clearing House, Inc.