[13395] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7R: ar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine Ng)
Tue Apr 4 10:38:17 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 10:38:07 EDT
From: Christine Ng <cstng@MIT.EDU>
System name: george2-sun
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
use the tar command to make backups on floppies
What's wrong:
I typed :
tar cvf /dev/diskette .
Then, it started saving the files onto the floppy.
At the end , I got an error :
a ./analyse/tplevel1.xs 57K
a ./analyse/R36.m 1K
a ./analyse/C36.m 1K
a ./analyse/R125.m 1K
a ./analyse/G125.m 1K
a ./analyse/H125.m 1K
a ./analyse/C125.m 1K
a ./analyse/cl2.m~ 1K
a ./analyse/cl3.m~ 1K
a ./analyse/tprate.xs.F 29K
a ./analyse/tplevel2.xs 42K
tar: write error: No such device or address
and the prompt returned.
What should have happened:
On other platforms, I think at the end, it would
tell me that the floppy is full and ask me to insert
a new disk. On the RS/6000, I would get :
a ./analyse/cl2.m~ 1K
a ./analyse/cl3.m~ 1K
a ./analyse/tprate.xs.F 29K
a ./analyse/tplevel2.xs 42K
2880 blocks on /dev/rfd0
tar: End of tape. Mount next tape on /dev/rfd0 and type return.
Then I would insert new diskette and :
proceeding to device /dev/rfd0
Could it be because on the Sun, to take the diskette out,
I need to type eject, so it wouldn't allow us to do that ?
But I could have typed eject from a different xterm.
So, I think by defaul, the sun should behave like the others.
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