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- From: cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu
- Subject: problems with tar-1.10
- Message-ID: <9208111518.AA09037@trifid.astro.ucla.edu>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:18:31 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I have recently been having problems using tar-1.10 on my DECstation 5000/200s.
- I originally installed this version of tar-1.10 about 6 months ago and it
- appeared to work fine until recently. The problem I'm having has to do with
- writing several tar files to the same DAT tape. I like to use mt fsf to
- skip forward on the tape to the file I'm interested in reading or to the
- end of tape to write another tar file. I'm finding that I can only skip
- about 2 files at a time if I try to skip more than that I get this error:
- /dev/nrmt0h fsf 5 failed: I/O error
-
- After skipping 3 files, I don't consistently get an error with mt but I do
- get an error with gtar (this is what I renamed tar-1.10 to):
- gtar -tvf gstars:/dev/nrmt0h
- gtar: read error on gstars:/dev/nrmt0h : No space left on device
-
- I know that this not the end of the tape because I can rewind it and use
- gtar to read every file starting from the beginning of the tape until I
- get to the last file at the end of the tape. I'm not sure this is a
- problem with gtar since I get that error message when I use the mt command
- to skip forward on the tape. Have you ever heard anything like this????
- It might have something to do with the mt command -- or more likely it is
- an error on the tape. Is it possible that I can read across this error
- with gtar but not skip across it with mt? Also problem doesn't seem to
- be linked to a specific tar file so I'm really puzzled. Do you have
- any suggestions? By the way, all of the files on this tape were written
- with tar-1.10 and I'm using the version of rmt that came with it since
- the DEC version didn't allow me to dump my Sun filesystems to the DAT drive
- on my DECstation.
-
- Thanks
-
- cliff
-
- cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu
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