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[sholton]

I can't say I've taken a tape drive off a Sun box and plug&played
it to a Linux box, but I have done that onto a Macintosh
(back in the System 7 days) and HP-UX workstations.

SCSI is SCSI, or at least it used to be.


Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:
> It's different drives.  I have a sun 8mm tape drive, but the workstation no
> longer boots.  I don't think I can hook a tape sun drive up to an x86 pci
> SCSI controller without some bios adjustments.  So, I'm using a different
> drive on an x86 linux box.
> tar does not seem to be quite tar between solaris 2.x and debian sarge.
> Both drives, however, use the same 112m 8mm tapes.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Is it the same physical drive moved to a linux box or a different drive?
>>Maybe the old drive used hardware compression which the new drive
>>doesn't do or software compression (tar -czvf ) was used so now you
>>would need tar -tzf /dev/st0 (or whatever your tape device is). Just
>>some thoughts, none guaranteed to be correct.
> 
> 
>>glenn
> 
> Doug Newcomb
> USFWS
> Raleigh, NC
> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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