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- From: caroline@topaz.Stanford.EDU (Caroline Lambert)
- Subject: problem reading tar tape
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.181655.12569@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:16:55 GMT
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- I have been sent two 8mm tapes which were written on a Sun with the
- command: 'tar -cvf /dev/rst0 *.SGY'.
-
- I have tried to read them on both a Sun workstation and a DEC
- workstation, but have not been able to.
-
- The error I get on the DECstation is:
-
- tar: File is continued on archive 2
- tar: Please load archive 2 on /dev/rmt0h & press RETURN
-
- Loading the other tape and pressing RETURN brings up the same error
- message. 'dd' gave me the message: 'end of media, load another volume'.
- Trying various 'mt' commands gave me 'I/O error' messages. The
- program copytape, which is supposed to be able to copy exact images
- of tapes, gave me this error: 'can't read input: No space left on
- device'.
-
- It seems there is an end of tape mark at the beginning of the tape.
- I've had the people who created the tapes send me another copy, with
- the same result. Is there something weird about Sun's tar command?
- Is there some trick to this, or some way around it?
-
- Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-
- --
- Caroline Lambert
- Seismic Tomography Project caroline@topaz.Stanford.EDU
- Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
-