wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman) (06/09/89)
Netbeings: I have a tar tape created under HP-UX. I want to read it onto a Sun (Sun-4 SunOS 4.0). Tar gives me I/O errors. Any suggestions as to tar parameters to use or a platform other than HP which could read this tape (I'm at a University, I might scare one up - but I don't know of any hp's) would be deeply appreciated. If it matters, it is a 1/4" cartridge tape written in Japan, so it's hard to find out more details about its method of creation. Thanks in advance. Lyle Wiedeman Distributed Computing Support wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu Academic Computing Services wiedeman@UCI.BITNET Univ. Calif. Irvine
parker@epiwrl.epi.com (Alan Parker) (06/18/89)
> >I have a tar tape created under HP-UX. I want to read it onto a Sun >(Sun-4 SunOS 4.0). Tar gives me I/O errors. If the tape was made on an HP drive, forget it. You cannot read this tape on a Sun. The low level format is different. You need to find an HP on a network with a Sun or one that has a nine track tape as well as the 1/4 inch cartridge (assuming that you can also find a Sun with a nine track tape).