9track drive woes

From: Gunther Schadow <gunther_at_aurora.regenstrief.org>
Date: Sun Feb 17 12:33:45 2002

Pat Finnegan wrote:

> After cleaning, same problem. Now, when I try to copy data off the tape
> using "COPY MUA0 NEWS.TAR", VMS gives me these errors:
>
> %COPY-E-READERR, error reading _MUA0:[].;
> -RMS-F-RER, file read error
> -SYSTEM-W-DATAOVER, data overrun
> %COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, _MUA0:[].; not completely copied
>
> when I use dump, like "DUMP MUA0 /OUT=NEWS.DMP", it works just perfectly
> fine, which leads me to believe it might be a VMS problem. Prior to now,
> I was able to copy straight from the foreign mounted volume OK, but now
> it's not working at all, even after I power-cycled the drive and the vax.
>
> Help?


Well, looks like cleaning did help after all :-) the error above
looks like a simple block-size mismatch. You need to set the
proper block size with MOUNT, like

$ MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCK=10240/RECORD=10240 MUA0

if the tape has been written with 10 kB blocks. When you
do not set the block/record size it assumes default 512
I believe, which means it can't get a full tape block into
its memory buffer, which is another word for data overrun.

You're on the path to success :-)

-Gunther



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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School of Medicine
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Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 12:33:45 GMT

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