Re: Reading from 9 track tape

In short, dd if=/dev/mt0 ibs=[blocksize] cbs=[conv buffer size] conv=ascii obs=[output block size] of=[output file name] Usually cbs and obs will be the desired record size, as the convert to ASCII will clip trailing spaces (dd in other direction, to EBCDIC, pads out to cbs) There's a test utility on some unix systems, testbs, that will find and report the block size for you: testbs /dev/mt0 r is the syntax. Only reads up to about 32K, however.