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Please help me out...

Waheed Ahmad — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:24:32 GMT

root@VOMS2cons# tar tv
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...
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tar: read error: unexpected EOF

and when I try to write a new file by by using u ...I get this...

root@VOMS2cons# tar uv -C /save test2
tar: tape read error

Re: Please help me out...

Torsten. — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:28:08 GMT

Your commands are using /dev/rmt/0m as default.

Do you have this tape device?

Do you have a good tape in drive?

Re: Please help me out...

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:31:37 GMT

Hi:

Your problem may be a dirty tape drive. Try cleaning it.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Please help me out...

Ganesan R — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:33:41 GMT

Hi,

The error indicates that it is unable to read from the media.

Have you tried with another media?

Is the LED blinking when you try to read the tape? Drive also could be defective sometimes.

Re: Please help me out...

Sajjad Sahir — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:30:54 GMT

Dear Waheed

I think your tape driver is dirty. You should unplug the tape drive and clean. then plug it again. after that try once more i hope it will work

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

Re: Please help me out...

avizen9 — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:40:34 GMT

Hello,
try to dump some file with dd command what will happen?
and usre as suggested please clean the drive with cleaning tape.

possible reboot once the tape drive, thanks,

Re: Please help me out...

UVK — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:12:36 GMT

Yeah, seems to be a bad tape or possible bad tape drive. Try to isolate the problem by using other tape. See if you have activity on drive

Re: Please help me out...

Waheed Ahmad — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:35:23 GMT

Thanks for your replies,

I actually had to kill this command below to stop writing the tape, as to free the tape drive:

nohup tar uv -C /save1 test2

and then when I got the tapedrive free and I ran that command again, thats when I got this read error message...

Could there be any problem coz of the kill command??

Re: Please help me out...

Dennis Handly — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:23:44 GMT

>Could there be any problem because of the kill command?

Well the file at the end of the tape would be bad.

Re: Please help me out...

Waheed Ahmad — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:17:06 GMT

whatever file I use.... it gives me the same tape read error..

Re: Please help me out...

Suraj K Sankari — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:16:23 GMT

Hi,
Did you tried with other tape ? If yes then are you still get the same error?

Suraj

Re: Please help me out...

Waheed Ahmad — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:18:54 GMT

Yeah thats the only option now...I should try with another tape...