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#! rnews 1869 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ronb From: ronb@cc.usu.edu (DR TE$TH & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Errors from tape drive device. HELP! Message-ID: <1996Jan22.182119.71949@cc.usu.edu> Date: 22 Jan 96 18:21:19 MDT Organization: Utah State University Lines: 40 I am having trouble making a tape backup on my machine. I have tried: set TAPE=/dev/rst0 /sbin/dump 0ufB $TAPE 1000000 /usr and tar -cvf /dev/nrst0 / and tar -cvf /dev/rst0 / but I consistently get errors like: (tar) tar: End of archive volume 1 reached tar: Waiting for tape drive close to complete.st0: media error: medium format corrupted done. tar: tar vol 1, 8 files, 0 bytes read, 0 bytes written. ATTENTION! tar archive volume change required. /dev/nrst0 ready for archive tape volume: 2 Load the NEXT TAPE on the tape drive and make sure it is WRITE ENABLED. The problem is that it has, by this point only shown one or two files. There is NO WAY that the tape is actually full, and it is write enabled. I had been told that there was a problem with 2.0 that didn't allow proper accessing of the tape backup, but I installed all the patches, and had no luck. I would greatly appreciate any input. rOn -- DISCLAIMER - These opoi^H^H "dang", ^H, [esc :q :qq !q "NYRGH!" :Q! "Whaddya mean, Not an editor command?" :wq! ^C^C^C !STOP ^bye ^quit :quit! !halt ... ^w^q :!w :wq! ^D :qq!! ^STOP [HALT! HALT!!! "Why's it doing this?" :stopit! :wwqq!! ^Z ^L ^ESC STOP :bye bye bye! M-X-DOCTOR "HELP! I can't get out of this stupid editor!!!" And how does this make you feel?