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- From: kraus@rtsg.mot.com (David Kraus)
- Subject: Multivolume tar gives errors
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Division
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:11:39 GMT
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- This may have been covered in the past, but I didn't see it in the FAQ.
- And this might be a duplicate post as well, since our news system here is a
- bit deficient. But anyway, here goes:
-
- I was trying to back up some rather large files I had pulled off of tsx11.
- Not having done a multivolume tar before, I decided to give it a shot.
- Nothing else going on with the machine (no compiles in other VCs, or
- anything else for that matter).
-
- So, I do the invocation, and it begins to chug away merrily on the HD.
- Stops it's thing on the HD, then starts writing to /dev/fd1 - which in my
- case is a 3 1/2" high density floppy. Cool, everything's going fine.
-
- Then, the hard drive kicks back in while the floppy is being written to.
- Nasty noises from the floppy, a rash of 'Floppy Reset Called' messages, and
- an I/O error or two.
-
- Bad. Tried a few other times, some different files (smaller subset), let
- it run through, restored to a different directory, and diff -b'd them.
- Sure enough - different.
-
- Had something similar happen here at work on a Toshiba 5200, but I just
- chalked it up to a bad floppy. Now I'm wondering...
-
- System specs:
-
- 386/33
- AMI BIOS
- 4M RAM
- 4M swap
- ST296N with ST01 controller
- /dev/fd0 is 1.2M floppy
- /dev/fd1 is 1.44M floppy
-
- MCC .96 interim distribution everything
-
- Could this be a SCSI issue? I'd be surprised, since I saw it on the laptop
- here, which I'm pretty sure has an IDE.
-
- Any thoughts on the matter, or pointers of where to look for answers would
- be appreciated. As it stands now, I don't think I can do a backup of the
- disk, so I hope I don't screw something up there.... Ahh, the funness of
- it all...;^)
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