wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott) (09/29/89)
I know I've heard this discussed out here before, but I never thought it would happen to me! How can I read a Sun Tar tape written with /dev/rst0 on an Apollo node ? My local SE says it can't be done with the device (rst0) chosen by the Sun user that wrote the tape. Using tar tf /dev/rct8 gives "blocksize = 0" . Don't tell me to make friends with our Sun administrators. Thanks, Andrew Wescott University of Houston Department of Chemical Engineering
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (09/30/89)
I believe the Sun's G (let's start this again) I believe the Suns have two device files, /dev/rst0 and /dev/rst8. The rst0 file writes the old QIC-11 format tapes (which are lower density) and the rst8 device writes the newer QIC-24 format. The Apollo cartridge drives handle QIC-24 tapes only. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)
abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair) (09/30/89)
From what I remember reading here before and trying, you have to use /dev/rst8 on the Sun since the Apollo cartridge drives cannot read the lower density /dev/rst0 format. Alan