[comp.sys.apollo] 1/4 tape between apollo and sun

bonnetf@apo.esiee.fr (bonnet-franck) (03/20/91)

Hi

This is an answer to jim rees who had troubles to
R/W  1/4" tape between apollo and sun.

We had also some troubles , so now we do the following 
and it works very often ...

1 - To Write a tape from apollo to sun we use this 2 commands :

  $  rbak -dev c -rewind   { Put the tape at load point }
  $  tar cvbf 1 /dev/rct8 directory_or_file_to_copy  


2 - To Read a tape comming from an apollo on a sun. 

  $ mt -f /dev/rst8 rew    { Put the tape at load point } 
  $ tar xvbf 1 /dev/rst8   { extract the archive from the tape }

This works here we have suns and apollo, all the troubles seems
to come of the length of blocks , by precising "1" it's OK.

We use BSD4.3 (10.1/2/3)

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