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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!ftpbox!motsrd!ramu
- From: ramu@cadsun.corp.mot.com (Ramu Iyer)
- Subject: Tar error message on a Sun 3
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.173942.430@cadsun.corp.mot.com>
- Summary: tar: read error: I/0 error
- Keywords: tar, Sun3, tape
- Organization: Motorola, Inc., Software Research and Development, Rolling Meadows, IL. 60008
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 17:39:42 GMT
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- I have a tape drive from Atherton Technologies connected to a
- standalone Sun 3 machine, which has a 500 MB hard disk. I get the
- following message whenever I try extracting (writing) files from (to)
- a tape loaded on the tape drive:
-
- tar: read error: I/O error
-
- Neither the tape nor the tape drive seem to be defective; in fact,
- they exhibit normal behavior when connected to another diskless Sun3
- machine which boots off another server.
-
- Has anybody seen this before?
-
- Thanks,
-
- --Ramu Iyer
-
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