On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Alec Berryman wrote:
Google this issue, you have to use kernel 2.2 or set the block size to 64kb or some weird number to get the data off of the tape.Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400:I tried: # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result. How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape?I don't know much about tape drives, but I would assume if you used dd to copy the information on the tape to a file on your disk, you'd be able to read it like a normal tar file.