Re: 8mm Tape Problem

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From: Ken Trant
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:58

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Look at the device being written to. It could be that the machine
has /dev/tape pointing to a no-swap device. Sun doesn't do byte
swapping but other systems do (SGI for one). So try using the
specific device instead of /dev/tape.

 
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From: trant@shire.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant)
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Subject: Re: 8mm Tape Problem
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