9track drive woes

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Mon Feb 18 02:38:05 2002

At 11:55 AM 17/02/2002 -0500, 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?

I'm assuming from the file name that the tape contains a Unix tar file. If
this is so, there are at least two "native" VMS programs designed to read
tar files. One is tar2vms (with it's partner vms2tar) which I've used many
times to read Unix tar tapes. A quick web search should find a copy nearby.

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