I have installed a DDS2 tape drive that was on an HP-UX machine and installed it 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 data files when the tape drive was in the HP9000/k210 machine.
Anybody have any suggestions on reading the data on the tape?
TIA
Mike
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 data files when the tape drive was in the HP9000/k210 machine.
Anybody have any suggestions on reading the data on the tape?
TIA
Mike