by Chad D. Lemm » Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:00:00
Notice: Stp: Error on SCSI tape 0 (ha=0 id=2 lun=0)
Medium error
tar: tape read error
read: I/O error
I get this when I type tar xvf /dev/rct0. Does this mean the tape is bad?
by Stephen M. Du » Sun, 14 Jan 1996 04:00:00
It means that there was an error reading the tape. The tape may
be bad; the drive may be bad; the drive may simply need cleaning.
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Stephen M. Dunn, CNE, ACE, Sr. Systems Analyst, United System Solutions Inc.
104 Carnforth Road, Toronto, ON, Canada M4A 2K7 (416) 750-7946 x251
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Hi,
I have a tyan mother board with redhat linux 2.1 and Win 95 installed on
the same system. I Lilo to start up Win94 or Linux. A jumbo 250 tape
drive is present in the system and it is attached to the floppy cable.
On the Linux Redhat side, I have ftape installed on what ever version
it is. I seem to remember its 2.x
I recently went to do a tar to the tape drive and it worked OK.
However when I went to do a big tar, I got tape errors.
Knowing that the tapes are susceptable to strecting and other problems,
I went over the Win/95 and tried to bring up the tape formatter and
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I got a BIOS error!
To format, Do I really have to get the new Win95 colorado backup
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Also, where do I get tape.exe?
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