On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, G T Smith wrote:-
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>OK, on my old and now dead DVD device this worked with -c (dunno why
>suspect it was rather slow so one could get a constant data stream)...
>
>Does not work on the newer replacement without -cz and then unreliably
>(get an I/O error)..but files are extractable, so this seems to be
>hardware related...
I'll try a test on another system later to find out if it's the DVD
drive that's causing the problem, or possibly something to do with the
Mac hardware.
>still can read tar archive directly however...
Same here. Writing the tar using growisofs works just fine, and can be
read back using /dev/hdc .
Regards,
David Bolt
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