Hi. We're having a problem un-tarring a tar tape in Linux that was made under Solaris. I recall having the exact same problem when I tried to untar a Solaris tape on an SGI. The problem was that one machine used "little-endian" representations for numbers on the tape, while the other used "big-endian".
The solution on the SGI was to use a special device (i.e. /dev/?????) that allowed the tape to be read the tape properly. The current tape device we are using is "/dev/st0". Is there a device on Linux that will read different-endian tapes. I notice /dev/st0a, /dev/st0l, and /dev/st0m -- should I try these? Do I need to make a new device file with mknod? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
