Read Sun's tapes to IRIS?

[Bill Reynolds]

In article <1991Apr19.210809.26153 at eng.umd.edu> naiming at eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) writes:
> I have two questions. first, the IRIS manual say there is two types
> of archive: cpio and tar. When I use system manager tool(on IRIS 4D/310)
> there is only tar can be used. I don't know why.
> Second, I have a tape from Sun workstation(I don't know what format that
> is) and I want to read it into IRIS, but the IRIS couldn't read it.
> Can somebody tell me what kind of format the IRIS can read? I was told
> I can change some switchs in a configuration file for tar, what is the
> file, how can I change it?
> Thanks in advance.

We had to solve the inverse problem, i.e. read sgi tapes onto a sun.
We were successful with the following command:

    dd if=/dev/nrst<tape device #> of=<path of output file> conv=swab

This will create a binary image of the first file from the tape on the
disk. Subsequent calls will put the next tapefile on the disk (be sure
to change the name of the output file or you will overwrite it). An
sgi service rep told me that he successfully used this to read Sun
tapes onto an sgi. good luck.
	
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