At 03:46 PM 4/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
Any idea at all how the tape was made?

Not right now.

What does mt give for a status of the drive and it's tape?
#mt -f /dev/rmt0 status

# mt status SCSI tape drive, residual=0 ds=13<WriteProtect,Mounted> er=0 blocksize: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0) density: 19 (0, 0, 0, 0)

Seems to be ignoring the format entirely?

Can you tar off the first tape header?
mt -f /dev/rmt0 rewind

Works.

tar -tvf /dev/rmt0.1

DNW: tar: Failed open to read on /dev/rmt0.1: No such file or directory

Also tried st0

# tar -tvf /dev/st0
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
Apr 11 16:09:18 Mainserver /bsd: st0(ahc1:2:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x8
Apr 11 16:09:18 Mainserver /bsd: st0(ahc1:2:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x8
Apr 11 16:09:18 Mainserver /bsd: SENSE KEY: Blank Check
tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.


IF you had the disk space you could dd the entire tape image to disk.

Seems like the format is incomprehensible to bsd, .. I was going to try the new Knoppix but it appears that 'Safe Mode' is now in effect.


        Thanks!

        Lee

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