Tape Drives Question

From: Mohan Kannapareddy <mkannapa_at_ford.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:27:22 -0500 (EST)

Greetings Managers,
        I have a weird problem, I have 2 DEC3000 workstations with
        2 different tape drives. Let us say at ine site I have a
        TLZ04 and the other site I have a TLZ06.

        I "tarred" some files on the TLZ06 files and tried to
        "untar" them on the TLZ04 dirve, but it does not work?
        It gives me weird errors, also when you issue the "tar"
        command, the blocksize seems to be different? I used a
        90M tape to store the files. Can anyone explain to me what is
        going on? I thought it might be a density issue, so I scored
        a 60M tape and tried the same scenario, it does not work?

        I am totally perplexed, can anyone explain to me what is going
        on? How can I make it work, the above test failed when "tarred"
        and "untarred" both ways?

        Will summarize. Also both of them are running DU V4.0

        Thanks
        cheers
        Mohan
Received on Wed Feb 12 1997 - 16:59:15 NZDT

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