I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin
under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize
to 0
mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0
No errors. I can status the tape.
But when I try to extract
tar xvf /dev/nst1
I get
tar: Cannot read: Invalid argument
tar: At beginning of tape; quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable; exiting now
(XP found the driver automatically for the drive.)
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