[ale] 4mm problem.

[Arnold D. Robbins]

> I have a 4mm at home on my PC and want to recover the data.  When I do a
> "dd conv=swab if=/dev/st0 | tar -xvf - <filename>"   I get an "Incorrect
> Block Size".  Anyone have any clues as to how to remedy this?  I tried
> setting ibs to different values but that is either wrong or I couldn't
> get the right value.

With tar, you shouldn't need to do any byte swapping, unless SGI's tar
is REALLY REALLY broken.

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