On Friday 01 June 2007 23:39, Robin Gruyters wrote: > > What happens if you try > > tar -b 128 -tf /dev/sa0 > > Same problem. > > > What did you upgrade from? Some gnutar using system I guess? (5.x > > or 4.x?) > > I'd upgraded from FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10
OK. Can you read the archive as a normal file from the tape? eg dd if=/dev/sa0 of=/tmp/foo If so does it work? Are you getting errors reading from the drive, or just the tar file is broken? I don't really have any other suggestions though sorry. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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