Tape Backup Problems (cpio read errors)

[John B. Meaders Jr.]

In article <1701 at ulowell.ulowell.edu> mschedlb at hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer) writes:
>
>Finally somebody who also has that problem!! You can still make backups
>but use /dev/rmt/c2s0 instead of /dev/rmt/c0s0. The problem may be caused
>by several factors:

Nice to see I am not the only person with problems.  I have an Archive
FT-60 that used to work under Esix.  Now it doesn't (I fear a bad controller).
It still reads (I have an old tape) and appears to write.  However, when
you read you get garbage.

>You can still read ALL tapes with the fast /dev/rmt/c0s0, but you should
>write them only with /dev/rmt/c2s0. I also recomment using GNU tar and
>cpio, but be sure you rename GNU cpio to soemthing likegnu-cpio as 
>installpkg will barf otherwise.

I don't have /dev/rmt/c2s0.  I am using the Archive AT&T Unix drivers as
the Esix Everex drivers don't work properly with the FT-60.
I will check for interrupt bashing, but I am pretty sure that is not
the problem.
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