SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes

[John Chapman]

In article <926 at fornax.UUCP>, chapman at fornax.UUCP (John Chapman) writes:
> In article <1220 at sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> > In article <87 at joymrmn.UUCP> root at joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:
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> You definitely need qic24 (rst8) so check that; but you will also probably have
> to byte-swap the tape (I do), e.g.
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> dd if=/dev/yourtape ibs=52100 conv=swab | tar tvf -
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> on your 386. Hope this helps.
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ooopppps, that should have been ibs=51200 (actually it will work without it but very slowly)