[Fwd: [ale] SCSI Tape: Linux <-> Sun]

[George A. Nies]

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Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> I have a SCSI Exabyte drive on my Linux system at home and a SCSI
> Exabyte drive on my sun at work.  They both use the 8mm video tape
> format of tapes.
> 
> When I tar something onto a tape on the Sun and try to read it under
> Linux, I am told something along the lines of
>         could not read /dev/st0:  read error or device full
> However when I tar something up on my Linux box, the Sun can read it
> just fine.

formats.  At the office where I work we have 3 of the 4, and they are
not interchangeable.  

The error message seems to be from the low level hardware driver.  You
might be sol.

	-George

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Subject: [ale] SCSI Tape: Linux <-> Sun
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I have a SCSI Exabyte drive on my Linux system at home and a SCSI 
Exabyte drive on my sun at work.  They both use the 8mm video tape 
format of tapes.

When I tar something onto a tape on the Sun and try to read it under 
Linux, I am told something along the lines of
	could not read /dev/st0:  read error or device full
However when I tar something up on my Linux box, the Sun can read it
just fine.

Any clues as to how I can get the Linux box to read what the Sun 
writes?  I'm just doing tar vc * on both boxes to archive and tar vt on 
both to list it.  

Thanks!!!
	-Dan

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Dan Newcombe (newcombe at aa.clayton.edu) http://www.clayton.edu/home/dan/
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