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by **Andrea Berni** » Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:00:00

How could I read on Linux (RedHat 4.1) a dat tape written by a Silicon
Graphics Workstation with tar (I know they use different block
management or similar)?

Thanks in advance.

by **Jim Howe** » Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:00:00

: How could I read on Linux (RedHat 4.1) a dat tape written by a Silicon
: Graphics Workstation with tar (I know they use different block
: management or similar)?

Dunno about different block management, but to read IRIX SGI tar DC6150's
on my sparc box, I usually stick the tape through dd conv=swab to swap
the byte order around..

Such as..
dd if=/dev/tape bs=10240 conv=swab | tar tvf -

Regards,
Jim

by **Chris Saunderso** » Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> : How could I read on Linux (RedHat 4.1) a dat tape written by a Silicon
> : Graphics Workstation with tar (I know they use different block
> : management or similar)?

> Dunno about different block management, but to read IRIX SGI tar DC6150's
> on my sparc box, I usually stick the tape through dd conv=swab to swap
> the byte order around..

> Such as..
> dd if=/dev/tape bs=10240 conv=swab | tar tvf -

Or vice-versa to read a Sun tape on an SGI.

Reading SGI tapes on Linux is easy - do a 'mt setblk 0' and go for it!

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by **Chris Saunderso** » Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> How could I read on Linux (RedHat 4.1) a dat tape written by a Silicon
> Graphics Workstation with tar (I know they use different block
> management or similar)?

# mt setblk 0
# tar tvf /dev/st0
?

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by **Mogens Kjae** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> > How could I read on Linux (RedHat 4.1) a dat tape written by a Silicon
> > Graphics Workstation with tar (I know they use different block
> > management or similar)?

> # mt setblk 0
> # tar tvf /dev/st0
> ?

I once spent a LONG TIME trying to get this to work, and it never did.
The problem was that
the default block size on SGI DAT tapes is 256K, which was too much for
linux (kernel limitation).
But of course you can write your SGI tapes with a smaller block size,
then it works without problems
(can't remember if you had to byteswap, though).

Mogens

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