Sun Blade tapes...
djohns
I have a couple archive tapes (170ME) made on a Sun Blade with and
external Exabyte 8mm tape drive, in 2004. The tapes contain contain tar
files which I'd like to look over. Anyone know of a means I can get
these tapes read and rewritten to DVD or the like?
thx
Alessandro Selli
Is the problem of a hardware or of a software nature?
If you have an Exabyte or compatible 8mm tape drive on any UNIX or Linux
box, you'd just untar the archive from the relevant device (/dev/mt0 on
Linux, /dev/rmt/0n on Solaris).
First test the tapes with the mt command:
mt status
and:
mt retension
If the tape drive seems to work all right, try to list the tape's
content:
tar t
In this form the command should use the default tape drive by
default, at least it does if the TAPE environment variable is set on the
correct tape device (see above). Otherwise, explicitly name the tape
device:
tar tf /dev/mt0
It will list all the files archived on the tape. You will then be
able to extract them, create an ISO-8859 CD or DVD image, and then you
will be able to burn it on a recordable media.
Hope this helps.
Bye,
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