murach@mips2.cr.bull.com (Lynne Murach) (09/11/90)
Hi folks! I am desperately trying to retrieve files from a streamer tape, but I am having many difficulties. The format of the tape is unknown. The command cpio -idcv < /dev/rmt/ctape0 causes one file to be extracted from the tape. When the "file" command is run on this extracted file, the type returned is cpio archive. I then run the command cpio -idcv < extracted_file, and a number of files are extracted. The problem is that before all of the files are extracted I get the following error: cpio: ERROR Out of sync. bad magic number/header. I am running on a MIPS M2000 under RISC/os 4.5. Does anyone out there know why this is happening and how I can fix it? The tape comes from over seas and if it all possible I would like to use the tape that I have. Please respond by e-mail because I don't always have time to read news. Thanks, Lynne Murach Bull Worldwide Information Systems Billerica, Massachusetts E-mail: murach@mips2.cr.bull.com