The standard SunOS comand to move the tape is mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1 You need to use the non-rewinding device, /dev/nrst0, not /dev/rst0 which rewinds the tape automatically. Then you might try either tar tvfb /dev/nrst0 20b or dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=dd.out.file bs=20b Trying to recall what the format of the files on the sun tape were. Humm.... Wonder if I still have my copy tape script.... Rummage around with find... found it. It is attached at the end. A pretty stupid script now that I look at it. But it did the trick to copy tapes from disk dd images. I leave it as an excersize to write the script to copy the tape to disk. BTW, the tapes were only 20 Mb in those days. Hope this helps RLH Proud owner of a Sun 100U Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 #! /bin/sh mt -f /dev/rst8 ret dd if=/dev/rst8 of=tape1.file0 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 1 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file1 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 2 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file2 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 3 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file3 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 4 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file4 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 5 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file5 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 6 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file6 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 7 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file7 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 8 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file8 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 9 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file9 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 10 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file10 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 11 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file11 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 12 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file12 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 13 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file13 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 14 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file14 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 15 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file15 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA21117 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:00:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from harker.harker.com (harker.harker.com [192.102.231.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA21112 for <pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:00:28 +1000 (EST) Received: (from harker@localhost) by harker.harker.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA23418 for pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Message-Id: <199905052256.PAA23418(a)harker.harker.com> To: pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: TOC of Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 tapes Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk While rummaging I found this. Thought some one might find it useful. Hope this helps RLH Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 SunOS 4.1.1 700-2719-10 of Sun Oct 14 16:11:25 PDT 1990 from Sun Release Engineering ARCH sun3 VOLUME 1 Vol File Name Size Type 1 0 boot 32768 image 1 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc 1 2 munix 729600 image 1 3 munixfs.tape 1638400 image 1 4 mini-root 7168000 image 1 5 root 74309 tarZ 1 6 usr 11609002 tarZ 1 7 Kvm 2042991 tarZ 1 8 Install 375409 tarZ 1 9 Networking 368239 tarZ 1 10 System_V 1624303 tarZ 1 11 Sys 1824146 tarZ 1 12 SunView_Users 978709 tarZ 1 13 SunView_Demo 196393 tarZ 1 14 Text 286755 tarZ 1 15 Demo 2132420 tarZ 1 16 OpenWindows_Users 10627838 tarZ 1 17 OpenWindows_Demo 2235385 tarZ 1 18 OpenWindows_Fonts 7180441 tarZ 1 19 User_Diag 1362467 tarZ 1 20 Manual 2653437 tarZ 1 21 TLI 18976 tarZ 1 22 RFS 338005 tarZ 1 23 Debugging 1141193 tarZ 1 24 SunView_Programmers 696087 tarZ 1 25 Shlib_Custom 748155 tarZ 1 26 Graphics 1219433 tarZ 1 27 uucp 226513 tarZ 1 28 Copyright 1536 image 2 0 XDRTOC 4096 toc 2 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc 2 2 Games 1558603 tarZ 2 3 Versatec 2383297 tarZ 2 4 Security 203109 tarZ 2 5 OpenWindows_Programmers 3916907 tarZ 2 6 Patch_IPC 139264 tarZ 2 7 Patch_C++_2.0 2953216 tarZ 2 8 Patch_TAAC 20480 tarZ 2 9 Copyright 1536 image Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA21141 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:03:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from harker.harker.com (harker.harker.com [192.102.231.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA21136 for <pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:02:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from harker@localhost) by harker.harker.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA23434 for pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:59:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Message-Id: <199905052259.PAA23434(a)harker.harker.com> To: pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Looking for Sun2 Multibus SCSI board Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk I am looking for a Sun2 Mutlibus SCSI board, no cables. Will give it a good home, pay money (some), or trade for other Sun2 Mutlibus stuff. If you need Sun2 Mutlibus boards I have some spares. Drop a request. Thanks in advance RLH Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA22062 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:13:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.20]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA22057 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:13:16 +1000 (EST) Received: from lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (joerg(a)lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.12]) by xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22179 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:18 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA01649 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:17 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:17 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Interview with Ken Thompson in COMPUTER Message-ID: <19990506170917.A1630(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SCMS, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... drained by Solaris 7 SPARC Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi there, I found this one quite interesting reading: http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, SCMS Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA22082 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:16:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA22077 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:16:41 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA10788; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:12:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199905060512.PAA10788(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Interview with Ken Thompson in COMPUTER In-Reply-To: <19990506170917.A1630(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> from Joerg Micheel at "May 6, 1999 5: 9:17 pm" To: joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz (Joerg Micheel) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:12:40 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Joerg Micheel: Yes, I should link it on the PUPS/TUHS pages. Thanks Joerg. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA22960 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 23:31:54 +1000 (EST)