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From: sleepy@wybbs.mi.org (Mike Faber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: NCR Tape Formats
Keywords: Tape Quick-24 tar cpio formats compatibility
Message-ID: <367@wybbs.mi.org>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:56:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: wybbs.367
References: <9906@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM;
Reply-To: sleepy@wybbs.UUCP (Mike Faber)
Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison MI
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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).  I have a Tower 32 with a M68020 and 
;2 HPSIO boards (16 ports).  I don't know what format the
;tape drive is writing and why doing a tar tvf on a Sun 68020
;based workstation won't read this tape.  I have tried 
;reading the tape using the quick-24 and quick11 and quick-3 
;formats but I always get:
;
;tar: directory checksum error (1 != 5663)
;
;Anyone else had such a problem or know details of the
;type of tape drive my NCR might have?  The NCR cannot read
;any tapes produced on Sun equipment either so it seems they
;are incompatible in both directions.  I Haven't been able
;to try other brands of machines yet.
;
;Thanks in advance.
;

I've had no end of trouble using NCR's tar.  Even with itself. (cvf -> xvf/tvf),
so, it does;t suprise me.  I use cpio almost exclusivly, now.  Anybody else had 
any such problems?

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sleepy@wybbs.UUCP
Michael Faber