HELP: Unknown CPIO errors and problems

[Alan Caldera]

In article <245 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca>, bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
> I  sure  hope  someone more familiar with cpio than I am reads  this  and
> takes  pity on me!  After a long search for some RM/Cobol-85 diskettes to
> recover a file, I can't read them.
> 
> They  were written in cpio format (why I don't know) and the  description
> on  the label says to use "cpio -icdv </dev/fd096ds15".  We get an  error
> that  says  "Out  of  phase -- get help"  and  sometimes  "Cannot  create
> directory <>  (errno 2)".
> 
 Its very possible that one of two things have occurred here:
     1)  its trashed
     2)  The command that was written on the label was wrong. Try this:

            cpio -iBcdv < /dev/rfd096ds15

  The backup could have been made to the raw device instead of the blocked
  one. 

Hope this helps.
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