pax
Jim Diamond
zsd at PIG.DREA.DND.CA
Sat Jun 3 04:53:53 AEST 1989
Has anyone successfully ported pax to a 3130? I tried doing so.
I (apparently) successfully wrote a two-volume tape with the
command
pax -wb400b -t /dev/rmt1
When I tried to restore the files with the command
pax -rvop -t /dev/rmt1
at the end of the tape I got multiple lines of the form
pax: [offset 47m+<x>k+0]: I/O error
(with <x>'s ... 192 197 202 207 212)
and then
pax: ./user/dir/file : Corrupt archive data
./user/dir/file
and then it died.
Anyone care to shed some light on this?
Thanks.
Jim Diamond
zsd at pig.drea.dnd.ca
P.S. The system has what I assume is the standard 3130 tape
drive: it is capable of writing about 45 Mbyte on a 450
foot tape. Do those of you with a similar configuration
notice that the tape drive reads much more slowly than
it writes, or do I have a defective drive?
"How much more slowly?", you ask? Let me put it this way:
the tape drive was what inspired the choice of system name.
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