Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board

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From: Hauke Fath
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:22

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Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> wrote:

> 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

With tar, you'll have an endian issue reading sun3-written tapes on
Lunix (i386, I assume). At least that's what I saw reading tar tapes
from an NCR tpwer (68020) on NetBSD/i386.

        hauke

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Subject: Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
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