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[Paul S. Sawyer]

In article <985 at lakesys.UUCP>, steven at lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman) writes:
> 
> 	I am running an AT&T 3B15 w/UNIX 2.1.2, recently been having some
> 	problems with "tar" and would apreciate if someone could forward
> 	me to a utility that might solve a problem.  We sometimes 
> 	receive source tapes written in this format on BSD 4.3 machines,
> 	"tar" like to return the error "directory checksum error"  at this
> 	point tar bombs out.  
> 
The block limit on my 3B5 tape drive is 8192 bytes.  The BSD tape was
probably written with a larger block size.  This has happened to me.

> 	Is there a utility available which would allow me to read such tapes?
> 	I was able to extract some data from this tape (4 Meg from 15 Meg).
> 	If so please direct me to such source - any mail should be forwarded
> 	to:  manager at marque

The only thing I could come up with at the time was to ask someone with a
tape drive without such limits to rewrite the tape for me!  Hope you have
a way to do this.

If ATT is listening, or CDC, who make the drives, where is the limitation, and
ARE there any workarounds?  These drives also do not seem to be able to be
unloaded by software, so semi-automatic backups leave the tapes loaded and
writable...


> -- 
> Steven M. Goodman
> Lake Systems -  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> uwvax!uwmcsd1!lakesys!steven
> uunet!marque!lakesys!steven


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