tar exabyte 8500 under xp

Thu Dec 14 15:24:00 GMT 2006

On Dec 13 17:18, Tim Scoggins wrote:
> I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin 
> under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize 
> to 0
>> mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0
>> No errors. I can status the tape.
>> But when I try to extract
>> tar xvf /dev/nst1
>> I get
>> tar: Cannot read: Invalid argument
> tar: At beginning of tape; quitting now
> tar: Error is not recoverable; exiting now
>> (XP found the driver automatically for the drive.)

Search the archives. The tape has probably a blocksize of > 64K which
is not handled gracefully by Windows, unless you tweak the settings
of your SCSI adaptor. And even then it doesn't work sometimes.
Corinna
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