Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ukma!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgihub!sgitokyo!sun From: sun@nsg.sgi.com (Lining Sun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Read Sun's tapes to IRIS? Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 18:50:39 GMT References: <1991Apr19.210809.26153@eng.umd.edu> Sender: @sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com Organization: Nihon Silicon Graphics, Japan Lines: 50 In-Reply-To: bill@inls1.ucsd.edu's message of 22 Apr 91 00:43:21 GMT In article , bill@inls1.ucsd.edu (Bill Reynolds) writes: nsg> Nntp-Posting-Host: inls1.ucsd.edu nsg> In article <1991Apr19.210809.26153@eng.umd.edu> naiming@eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) writes: > I have two questions. first, the IRIS manual say there is two types > of archive: cpio and tar. When I use system manager tool(on IRIS 4D/310) > there is only tar can be used. I don't know why. > Second, I have a tape from Sun workstation(I don't know what format that > is) and I want to read it into IRIS, but the IRIS couldn't read it. > Can somebody tell me what kind of format the IRIS can read? I was told > I can change some switchs in a configuration file for tar, what is the > file, how can I change it? > Thanks in advance. nsg> We had to solve the inverse problem, i.e. read sgi tapes onto a sun. nsg> We were successful with the following command: nsg> dd if=/dev/nrst of= conv=swab nsg> This will create a binary image of the first file from the tape on the nsg> disk. Subsequent calls will put the next tapefile on the disk (be sure nsg> to change the name of the output file or you will overwrite it). An nsg> sgi service rep told me that he successfully used this to read Sun nsg> tapes onto an sgi. good luck. nsg> nsg> -- nsg> _______________________________________________________________________ nsg> | Bill Reynolds nsg> | bill@inls1.ucsd.edu a simple method is as follows: tar xf /dev/tapens that is Sun and Iris have the same byte order. /dev/tapens is device that don't change byte order ( /dev/tapa changes byte order). -- $@#=(J --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lining Sun ($@B9N)G+(J) junet: sun%sgi.co.jp@nkk.co.jp internet: sun@nsg.sgi.com Engineering Software Department Nihon Silicon Graphics K.K. Silicon Graphics Inc, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------