[1635] in SIPB-AFS-requests
set rosebud /dev/rmt0 to variable blocksize
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 28 15:24:38 1994
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:24:10 EST
A user came in with an 8mm tape written on an SGI, and in the process
of trying to read it here, I ran smit on rosebud and set /dev/rmt0 to
variable blocksize (it was set to blocksize 1024). I believe it had
been variable blocksize before the machine was reinstalled.
In case anyone is curious, this didn't help with reading the tape.
Evidently the tar program on SGI's writes tapes byte-swapped, and
doing "dd if=/dev/rmt0{,h} bs=1024 conv=swab | tar" seemed to work for
reading the tape on either rosebud or hodge.
Matt
