Is it possible? 2004-05-27 - By digimata
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Anthony,
Thanks for your input.
I have given up.
I do have a an old Indigo hanging around and I was
able to put the system back together and running.
Unfortunately I forgot my 150 tape drive was defective, it was giving
me I/O errors
I tried a few times and when I pull the tape out it had grease on it. I
think
it is history. Oh well, it would have been nice to get those models back.
Leoung
Anthony Rossano wrote:
>what kind of tape? 150 MB is not big.
>DAT was the most common drive used on SGIs. I have some experience
>trying to use SCSI DAT drives on Windows and its not fun.
>Plus, the Irix tar implementation did reverse byte ordering and had
>bigger block sizes and stuff like that, so you really need a command
>line tar tool (and dd) to make it work.
>
>here's the easiest;
>1) Find someone with an SGI hanging around you can borrow.
>There are a LOT of them in closets.
>
>2) Use a linux machine
>
>3) Use a Max with OSX, it has a full command line tar implementation
>
>4) Pay someone 50$ to do it, who has the SGI running and a DAT drive,
>etc.
>ATR
>
>
>On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:25:08 -0500, digimata wrote:
>
>
>>Here is a silly question, I have some models I would like to retrieve from
>>150 MB data tape that was backup in Iris on an Indigo. Can I retrieve
>>them on a PC?
>>Is there a magic utility? or is it wishful thinking?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leoung
>>
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Anthony,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your input.<br>
I have given up.<br>
I do have a an old Indigo hanging around and I was<br>
able to put the system back together and running.<br>
Unfortunately I forgot my 150 tape drive was defective, it was giving
me I/O errors <br>
I tried a few times and when I pull the tape out it had grease on it.
I think<br>
it is history. Oh well, it would have been nice to get those models
back.<br>
<br>
Leoung<br>
<br>
Anthony Rossano wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">what kind of tape? 150 MB is not big.
DAT was the most common drive used on SGIs. I have some experience
trying to use SCSI DAT drives on Windows and its not fun.
Plus, the Irix tar implementation did reverse byte ordering and had
bigger block sizes and stuff like that, so you really need a command
line tar tool (and dd) to make it work.
here's the easiest;
1) Find someone with an SGI hanging around you can borrow.
There are a LOT of them in closets.
2) Use a linux machine
3) Use a Max with OSX, it has a full command line tar implementation
4) Pay someone 50$ to do it, who has the SGI running and a DAT drive,
etc.
ATR
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<pre wrap="">Here is a silly question, I have some models I would like to
retrieve from
150 MB data tape that was backup in Iris on an Indigo. Can I retrieve
them on a PC?
Is there a magic utility? or is it wishful thinking?
Thanks,
Leoung
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