slesh@fth-1.arpa (01/23/86)
Does anybody have any idea what the incompatability problem with 'tar' tapes created on a Vax for our AT&T 3B20 might be? Somebody sug- gested that it might have something to do with byte ordering. I would appreciate some suggestions as to how to get around this. Some of our users are waiting for the documentation on the 'tar' tape. I keep getting a 'checksum' error with an unmodified 3B20 'tar'. When I bypass the checksum routine, I get and u"unbalanced" nroff text marker error. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Steven Lesh
bzs%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (01/25/86)
Ugh, this keeps coming up, the 3B cannot handle the default large blocksize of Tar, the tape has to be written with a smaller blocking factor (re-written) on the Vax, like: tar cbf 5 /dev/rmt12 . for a blocking factor of 5 which should work fine. It's hardware (a really dumb tape controller on the 3B) so I believe there is no real way around it other than re-writing the tape.) -Barry Shein, Boston University