[TriLUG] retrieving tar backups from solaris 8mm drives

[Andrew Perrin]

Hmmm - that doesn't look good for the hardware or tape level. You could
try just cat /dev/nst0 to see if it grabs anything off the tape. Have you
used other tapes in this drive?

Also make sure it's rewound:

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind


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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:

> I get input/output error at beginning of tape, exiting now :-(  with both
> /dev/nst0 and /dev/st0
>
>
> >I would think tar should be tar - what happens when you do:
>
> >tar tvf /dev/nst0
>
> >with the dape in the drive?
> >ap
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