Steve Lord wrote:
> I think currently the only solution is to do the dump on an irix box and
> the restore on the linux box, this should work. Unfortunately if the
> reason for you needing this is to get data from a disk on a dead octane
> this does not help very much. We are working on the blocksize support
> but I expect it will not be available for several weeks yet.
>
> Steve
Yup, that's what i was begining to think.
(To recap - i have a bust irix installation AND a tar backup on the same
drive. My answer lies in being able to uncompress the tar archive over the
installed irix installation. I cannot boot the os as it is - cause its half
6.5.5 and 6.5.11, duh! - and I don't think i can instigate anything much
from the PROM - pointers welcome - so my solution would be to stick the
drive in another computer that can read/write to the disk and unarchive the
tar, pop the drive back in and bingo!)
How about this : I have a spare Indigo2. It's running 6.2. It cannot read
the disk either - for reasons i don't know, but best guess the same
blocksize issue. Would xfsdump work on here to the same effect ? I'm out of
SCA to SCSI converters, but if this would work, i could 'find' one PDQ :)
Sorry this is going a little off topic.
Best regards
Rob Fielding
rob@xxxxxxxx
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