READ A TAPE

[inma]

Is there any way of reading a tape which write format I ignore??????
Scenario:
1) the tape is a Sony DDS data cartridge DG-60M, 4 mm. written in a IRIS of Silicon Graphics computer.
2) I want to read it in a Ultra 10 computer with Solaris 2.5

Thanks in advance.

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry - know nothing of IRIS, but dd might help - take a look at the Solaris man page or post back if further help required (try a search of the forum for tips on using dd first). Cheers.

 

[inma]

I have tried this command:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=x conv=swab
and the reply was:
read: I/O error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out

Thank you very much

 

[Jkloek]

It was likely written with one of the standard utilities, like tar or cpio. Try reading a table of contents with tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0 or cpio -ivBdumct </dev/rmt/0 (or without the &quot;c&quot; flag if you get &quot;out of phase&quot; messages). Neither of these will actually write the data. Remove the &quot;t&quot; flag in cpio to actually write the files, or with tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0. Maybe one of these will help.