[724] in Athena Bugs
A bug with 'tar cfv /dev/floppy .' on vs2000 <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shjao@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 31 17:58:47 1988
From: <shjao@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 88 17:57:55 EDT
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
My floppy is maxell MD2-HD and was formated by IBM-RT with
'/etc/fdformat -h /dev/rfd0'. The floppy works successfully with IBM-RT
about 80% of the time ( i.e. no 'tape read I/O error') for tar 'cfv', 'tf'
, 'xfv' and also 'ufv'.
However, according to what I was told, these floppy can be used for vs2000.
Up to now, I have successful job ( i.e. copy on to floppy and read it back to
my locker from the floppy) only on machine m1-142-8. I have tested on machines
11-124G-?? and they don't even recognize /dev/floppy or /dev/rrd2a.
I tried to copy on machines 11-116-?? and always get a
'tar: tape read error: I/O error' at the begining or after some files copied.
also the system echos
sd2:HARD ERROR: syncerr
or
sd2:HARD ERROR: compare error
(The files on floppy is stored by IBM-RT)
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