sun/apollo
Glenn Roberts
gfr at cobra.mitre.org
Fri Jun 16 22:15:45 AEST 1989
Reference: v8n32
> I want to be able to write a cartridge tape so that either the a sun-3 or
> 4 OR an apollo DN 3010 can read it. I've been told it's possible using
> tar and some sort of particular format forced on the tape; but I haven't
> found anyone here who really knows how to do it. help?
Use tar and specify device /dev/rst8 or /dev/nrst8 when writing the tape.
This uses the so-called quik-24 format instead of quik-11 (that's the
extent of my knowledge on the subject). I don't know Apollo model numbers
but all the Apollos here seem to be able to read tar tapes made in this
fashion.
- Glenn Roberts, The MITRE Corp., McLean VA (703) 883-6820
groberts at mitre.org
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