Please help me out...

[Waheed Ahmad]

root@VOMS2cons# tar tv
...
...
...
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

[Torsten.]

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

Do you have this tape device?

Do you have a good tape in drive?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R]

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.

[Sajjad Sahir]

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

[avizen9]

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,

[UVK]

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

[Waheed Ahmad]

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??

[Dennis Handly]

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

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

[Waheed Ahmad]

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

[Suraj K Sankari]

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

Suraj

[Waheed Ahmad]

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