read a 8mm tape

2007-12-25 10:09:00

The acturally solution is relate to format of the tape drive.

I can easily read the tape, 'tar xvf /dev/rmt/0', by a 8500XL tape drive.

I was tried and failed on both 8200 and 8500 tape drives.

Thanks for many repiles, and most of them suggested to use 'tcopy /dev/rmt/0'

to find out the block size and files on the tape or use 'dd' to extract files.

In this situation, neither worked with the wrong tape drive.

My question is followed.

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Please help me to read a 8mm tape.

The tape is 8mm 112m tape and it's tar format.

When I use 'tar xvf /dev/rmt/1' on Solaris 2.5.1 with a Exabyte 8500 tape drive,

the error is:

tar: blocksize = 0

Of course, the blocksize couldn't be 0.

Any idea how can I read this tape?

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Aptix Corp. Information Services Manager

408-428-6223 (phone) 408-944-0646 (fax)

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