aw@grpthry.UUCP (Alan Whitton) (07/07/86)
Greetings Gurus, I am having problem retrieving (sp?) information from a tar tape. It keeps giving me a checksum error on a directory, and then dies after that. We are running a "flakey" SYS III right now, and I cannot think of how to get the rest of the files off so that I don't have to break them up by hand. Does anyone have a way around this? Frustrated alan
hartley@uvm-gen.UUCP (07/11/86)
> I am having problem retrieving (sp?) information from a tar tape. It keeps > giving me a checksum error on a directory. Try dd-ing the tape into a file: dd if=/dev/rmt8 of=file ibs=10240 conv=noerror,sync Then you can try taring out of the file: tar xivf file where the i option is to ignore checksum errors. Might help.
gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP (07/12/86)
In article <165@grpthry.UUCP> aw@grpthry.UUCP (Alan Whitton) writes: >I am having problem retrieving (sp?) information from a tar tape. It keeps >giving me a checksum error on a directory, and then dies after that. We are >running a "flakey" SYS III right now, and I cannot think of how to get the >rest of the files off so that I don't have to break them up by hand. As I recall, the "tar" shipped with UNIX System III would act this way if one used the wrong combination of blocksize and magtape minor device. Try specifying both explicity (and try both orders for these options, as one of them may also be broken), as in: tar xbf 20 /dev/rmt0 I think I finally fixed all the major bugs in AT&T's version of "tar", which I sometimes ship to appropriately licensed sites (System III does not suffice).