Tar Problem

[bowiecat]

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I have created a CD on a Windows 2000 system using Adaptec easy cd writer. This CD contains file gcc-3.3.3.tar. I place the CD in a SCO Unix 5.05 CD rom unit, mount the cd rom (mount /dev/cd0 /mnt), then I initiate a tar xvf /mnt/gcc-3.3.3.tar command. The files start to uncompress and install into my target directory /tmp/GCC and then after a few hundred files the tar command aborts and I get the following errors:
tar: tape read error
read: I/O error

I have also tried just using the cp /mnt/gcc-3.3.3.tar /tmp/GCC/. command to just copy the file from the CDRom. and I get this message: cp error reading date from /mnt/gcc-3.3.3.tar: I/O error (error 5)

Is there some kind of blocking problem on the CD rom? Any ideas? Really need to get GCC installed and there is no other means then sneaker net to get this copied onto the SCO Unix box.

 

[edfair]

Since you get a command line error too, I would suspect that you have a bad CD or an interchange problem where one drive won't read another's output.

Ed Fair
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