zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond) (06/03/89)
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@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.