Reading Sun tapes on 4D/20

[Jim Barton]

IRIS tapes are byte-swapped versus Sun tapes, which may be the root of
your problem (the drive knows what kind of tape it is; the OS doesn't).

Simplest way to deal with it is with 'dd', as in:

	dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab bs=4k | tar xvf -

-- Jim Barton
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