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Article #428Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
From: Nick Andrew
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:15
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:15
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mdalene@pinkrose.local.net (B'ichela) writes:
> having a Wangtek 5150es (its the scsi version). I have made
>DC600A tapes on it without a hitch! Forget those DC300XLs! Those wont
>write (never tried a read). if the tapes are DC600s you should not
>have a problem. PROVINDING that the restore software is the same type
>as on the SUN. If the sun used dump. use dump to read em back. if tar
>use tar. if it was cpio, try the gnu cpio.
The interesting things will be tars. Sometimes many to a tape. There
will be some dumps as well, perhaps Linux dump can read the format
written by SunOS 4.x
Whatever files I can get out of it, I will uncompress, compare
(disregarding duplicate versions), rearrange a bit then write
onto a few CDRs. When the CDRs become an obsolete storage medium
I'll copy them onto something else :-)
Nick.
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