Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 01 June 2007 23:39, Robin Gruyters wrote:
> > What happens if you try
> > tar -b 128 -tf /dev/sa0
>
> Same problem.
>
> > What did you upgrade from? Some gnutar using system I guess? (5.x
> > or 4.x?)
>
> I'd upgraded from FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10

OK.
Can you read the archive as a normal file from the tape? eg dd 
if=/dev/sa0 of=/tmp/foo

If so does it work? Are you getting errors reading from the drive, or 
just the tar file is broken?

I don't really have any other suggestions though sorry.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070601/ec8e7ae8/attachment.pgp