Re: skip bad block on QIC-150 tar

2007-11-02 Thread Bill Vermillion
At Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:00 , our malformed and occasionally flatulent friend [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth this fount of brain juice: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:35:43 -0800 From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: skip bad block in QIC-150 tar -Original

skip bad block in QIC-150 tar

2007-11-01 Thread freebsd
I'm trying to recover some files from a 5 yr old tar on a QIC-150 tape. Unfortunately, there's a bad block on the tape; tar barfs and quits when it gets to it: tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format I managed to get a complete directory listing using tar t on my

Re: skip bad block in QIC-150 tar

2007-11-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:10 PM 11/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to recover some files from a 5 yr old tar on a QIC-150 tape. Unfortunately, there's a bad block on the tape; tar barfs and quits when it gets to it: tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format I managed to get

RE: skip bad block in QIC-150 tar

2007-11-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: skip bad block in QIC-150 tar I'm trying to recover some files from a 5 yr old tar on a QIC