Byte swapped tar file on 8mm tape

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1 total messages Started by Dave Kinchlea Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:53

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Author: Dave Kinchlea
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:53

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(Stan's Own Server Software) and gnu-tar the disks onto my 2GB 8mm
cartridge (I WOULD use bru except that for some reason bru can't read
the mounted disks -- odd but ...). Anyway, the procedure seemed to
work just fine but the files on the tape have all of their bytes
swapped. Just for the record: these tapes are written and read on the
same machine. I did manage to get the data off via:
#> cat /dev/exabyte | dd conv=swab | gtar -xvf -
but I still don't know why these bytes got swapped. Any ideas?

On a related note, can someone tell me why:
#> dd if=/dev/exabyte of=foo
dd: read error: Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out

#> ls -l /dev/exabyte
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       23,162 Dec 26 11:27 /dev/exabyte

I have done this on other machines with a QIC, is there something
special about exabytes that I don't know about?


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