I manually tarred stuff onto a blank tape and was able to successfully read
the tar back off the tape.

The commands issued were something along the lines of:
# Plop in a tape
% mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
% dd of=/dev/nst0
blah blah blah..fake tape header^D
% mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
% mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
% tar cv *.* | dd of=/dev/nst0
# Great..I can see the tar files
# Dump the contents and write to the 2nd file marker.
% mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
% mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
% dd if=/dev/nst0 of=blah.tar
% mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
% mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2
% tar cv *.*|dd of=/dev/nst0
% mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
% mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2
% dd if=/dev/nst0 | tar tvf -
# I can see the other files and the new blah.tar file I added


robin



On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > I am going to try tarring to a blank tape manually and see what happens.
> 
> This will answer the question regarding 2.4.4b1.  Make sure to tar 
> multiple times.
> 
>