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From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
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Subject: Re: Reading Sun tapes on 4D/20
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Date: 21 Apr 89 14:47:14 GMT
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IRIS tapes are byte-swapped versus Sun tapes, which may be the root of
your problem (the drive knows what kind of tape it is; the OS doesn't).

Simplest way to deal with it is with 'dd', as in:

	dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab bs=4k | tar xvf -

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
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