Help in reading Mangled TAR tape

[hartley at uvm-gen.UUCP]

> I am having problem retrieving (sp?) information from a tar tape. It keeps
> giving me a checksum error on a directory.

Try dd-ing the tape into a file:
	dd if=/dev/rmt8 of=file ibs=10240 conv=noerror,sync
Then you can try taring out of the file:
	tar xivf file
where the i option is to ignore checksum errors.  Might help.