HELP: Unknown CPIO errors and problems

[Bill Irwin]

I  sure  hope  someone more familiar with cpio than I am reads  this  and
takes  pity on me!  After a long search for some RM/Cobol-85 diskettes to
recover a file, I can't read them.

They  were written in cpio format (why I don't know) and the  description
on  the label says to use "cpio -icdv </dev/fd096ds15".  We get an  error
that  says  "Out  of  phase -- get help"  and  sometimes  "Cannot  create
directory <>  (errno 2)".

When  doing  this  I  was root in the /tmp directory, so I  can't  see  a
permission problem.  The output of "dtype /dev/fd096ds15" says it is cpio
written  with  the  -c  option.   Doing  a  "dd"  on  the  diskette  will
successfully produce a file on the hard disk...question is - what do I do
with it?

Since  we don't use cpio very often (usually only with supplier diskettes
that  require  it)  we are at a loss.  The manual page for  cpio  doesn't
mention  this error.

If  anyone  has  any  suggestions about why I am  unable  to  cpio  these
diskettes  or how to get one particular file off of one of them, I  would
be very appreciative.  Thanks.
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Bill Irwin    -   TWG The Westrheim Group     -    Vancouver, BC, Canada
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