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Conference stkhlm::magtape

Title:	MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES

Moderator:	STKHLM::GJOHNSSON

Created:	Mon Sep 21 1987
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3775
Total number of notes:	13147

3639.0. "Can't read tape" by FORTY2::JONES (Neil) Wed Jan 29 1997 11:02

    
    Hi,
    
    I have two UNIX systems:
    
    A: Flamingo with built in tape drive running UNIX V4.0 (have also tried
       UNIX 3.2C)
    
    B: AlphaStation 255 running UNIX 3.2G with TLZ04
    
    The tape drive on B appears to be working ok. I can do a tar cv
    to make a tape and I can read it on machine A.
    
    Now if I make a tape on machine A, machine B cannot read it!
    
    If I do tar cv on machine A it says the blocksize is 20 (the default).
    However when I try to read the tape on machine B it says the tape is
    not a tar archive and the blocksize is 5!!!
    
    Ok, I'll write the tape on machine A with a blocksize of 5. But 
    machine B thinks this now has a blocksize of 128.
    
    Anybody got any idea what's going on?
    
    Thanks
    
    Neil

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3639.1 What are we comparing? SUBSYS::adapt1.shr.dec.com::dlane http://adapt1.shr.dec.com:80/index.htm Wed Feb 05 1997 14:58 5

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3639.1	What are we comparing?	SUBSYS::adapt1.shr.dec.com::dlane	http://adapt1.shr.dec.com:80/index.htm	`Wed Feb 05 1997 14:58`	5
	What's the tape in the Flamingo? It's probably a TLZ06 or TLZ07. Have you checked that the writing being done on the Flamingo isn't being done in compressed format? The TLZ04 can't read compressed data. Dana

What's the tape in the Flamingo? It's probably a TLZ06 or TLZ07. Have
you checked that the writing being done on the Flamingo isn't being 
done in compressed format? The TLZ04 can't read compressed data.

Dana