write error on 2nd tape - using Archive VP60e
Jim Rosenberg
jr at oglvee.UUCP
Wed Dec 27 05:19:16 AEST 1989
In article <8912230518.AA05930 at decwrl.dec.com> paine at fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
>
>I have Interactive 386/ix v2.0.2 and Archive VP 60e tape drive using
>D600 cartridge (60meg). I have no problem installing and running tape
>only in first time. After at the end of tape, the message displays to
>insert another volume of tape and press y to continue. It is always
>stopped with write errors. This is same for tar, cpio, afio and even
>commercial ctar. I believe that there is something I have to modify
>default setting under /etc.
This sounds similar to what happened to us when we upgraded an Altos 2000
to a 150M tape. Does your tar have an option to let you specify how long
the tape is? If so, try giving a length that is just short of the true
length of the tape, so that tar will ask to change reels before getting
an I/O error from the end of the tape.
With our tape -- which is supposedly the same as the Archive Viper -- I
have learned to be happy with it by slavishly performing a ritual on
each tape before use: I run a script which retensions the tape, writes
a tiny cpio archive to it, then does a cpio -itv back to test it. When
I do this I have no problem. When I didn't I went nuts. I shouldn't
*have* to do all this all the time, but at least I've got backups down to
a routine. Before the retension/cpio ritual and specific volume size I
would get an I/O error on just about every reel change.
--
Jim Rosenberg pitt
Oglevee Computer Systems >--!amanue!oglvee!jr
151 Oglevee Lane cgh
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