[ale] 4mm problem.

[nomad at netwide.net (Robert L. Harris)]

Arnold D. Robbins wrote:
> 
> > I have a 4mm at home on my PC and want to recover the data.  When I do a
> > "dd conv=swab if=/dev/st0 | tar -xvf - <filename>"   I get an "Incorrect
> > Block Size".  Anyone have any clues as to how to remedy this?  I tried
> > setting ibs to different values but that is either wrong or I couldn't
> > get the right value.
> 
> With tar, you shouldn't need to do any byte swapping, unless SGI's tar
> is REALLY REALLY broken.

It is.