I have had success doing this with SunOS 4.1.2 and using the
high density tape device name.
eg. if configed as rst0, use rst8.
See the man page for st on 4.1.2.
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| Keith W. Brasher |
| Landmark LGC - EI |
| kbrasher@lgc.com |
| 713/579-4807 |
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The problem with writing 2+ GB files to tape is that even though
the tape driver does not normally use the file pointer, the system
maintains it and declares an error on the first write for which
the high order (sign) bit of the file pointer is set. If you are
writing the tape with a program that you wrote, you can get around
this problem by doing an lseek() on the tape file descriptor
to keep the file pointer from overflowing. Note that you also
have to do the same kind of thing when you read the tape.
(Of course, this is only a "work-around" and not the ideal
solution.)
Dan Strick, aka dan@bellcore.com or bellcore!dan, (201)829-4624
---one message indicated that there is a patch for 4.1.1 that fixes this. I have not been able to locate it at this time.
thanks for the reposnses:
Malcolm Strickland Martin Marietta Electronic Systems chuck-strickland@orl.mmc.com Mail Point 1304 Phone: 407-356-5909 pobox 628007 Fax: 407-356-8944 Orlando, Fl 32862-8007
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