As a followup to the previous posts let me elaborate on what has been done since these were posted. The system is a Pentium 4 2.0Ghz w/ Adaptec 2100S Raid controller, 1GB memory, Archive Python 4106 12/24GB DAT tape drive, and 4-18GB hard drives. For the tape drive we have tried four SCSI...
Yes, I have tried modifying compression, blocking factor, size of tape device, even used special devices. I have also removed the tape device and set it up as both DAT and generic SCSI. I am pretty much at a loss. I am trying a few other things to make it work. Any other suggestions are always...
>stanhubble (MIS) Jul 2, 2003 :
>Do you have it terminated properly?
yes
>Is it the only device on the chain?
yes
>can you do:
>tape load
no response - i just go back to root prompt
>tape status
status: ready beginning-of-tape write-protected
soft errors: 0
hard errors: 0
underruns: 0...
I get partially through the file lising and the error I get is:
tar: tape read error
read: No such device or address
I can read this tape on the original system without failure. On the new system it fails at a different place every time.
I have installed SCO 5.0.7 on a Pentium 4-2.4GHZ with 1GB mem, Raid 5 Adaptec 2100S controller with 4-18GB hard drives, Adaptec 2940AU controller for the tape drive, Dell OEM (Seagate STD224000N) tape drive. When I read a tape using (tar -tv8) it will get part of the way through the read and...
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