DDS2 tape drive question

[mevasquez]

I have installed a tape drive that was on an HP9000/K210 machine and installed the tape drive on a Red Hat 9.0 machine.

When I run the following command, mt -f /dev/st0 status, I get the following:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x24 (DDS-2).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

Then when I do the following command, tar -tvf /dev/st0, I get the following:
tar: Record size = 2 blocks
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It seems that it is not a tar archive.

I do not know what format was used to backup the files when the tape drive was in the HP9000/k210 machine.

I am trying to use cpio on the Linux machine but am slightly confused as the correct options in order that I may view what is on the tape.

Anybody have any suggestions on this.

Mike

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi, cpio with the -itv options might be enough to give you what you need. HTH.