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tar exabyte 8500 under xp


I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize to 0

mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0

No errors. I can status the tape.

But when I try to extract

tar xvf /dev/nst1

I get

tar:  Cannot read:  Invalid argument
tar:  At beginning of tape; quitting now
tar:  Error is not recoverable; exiting now

(XP found the driver automatically for the drive.)




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