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>From: "Bruce Ackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: linux tar incompatible with SCO Unix tar?
>Date: Wed, Jun 21, 2000, 11:43 PM
>Ok, I've had time to figure out that it's not an OS problem. When I took the
drive from the SCo box & installed it in the Linux box, it could read tapes
it had tar'd, dd'd, or cat'd under SCO Unix. Why should the drives be
incompatible? Someone suggested the heads might be out of alignment.
> I've been running the Pick database system on SCO Unix system V for a while
> now and am upgrading to Pick's newest release (D3) on rRedHat Linux 6.1.
> Not wanting to upgrade both the OS and database on the machine I depend on,
> I built a cheap Pentium white box. Linux installed fine. Since I use 4mm
> DDS-1 for backup on the Unix system, I scrounged one up for my Linux system
> ($200 bucks for an HP 35470A).
>
> Now my trouble starts. According to Hewlett Packard my tw DAT drives should
> be 100% compatible (HP C1536A on SCO, HP 35470A on Linux). Neither one can
> read tapes tar'd by the other! Both work fine by themselves.
>
> I still have some stuff to tryout. A friend suggested I try tar'ing on a
> 3.5 floppy,if that was cross platform readable then the problem must not be
> tar, but something about one or the other tape drive (or both). He also
> suggested I try cat /dev/rst0 | od -c on a tape tar'd on "the other system".
> There's cpio, and just cat'ing a text file to the raw device and trying to
> cat it back off "the other one".
>
> What I really want to be able to do is backup my Pick data from Unix and
> restore it on Linux. Is that too much to ask?
>
> thanks in advance for your help
> Bruce ackman
>
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