DAT tape problem

From: Kumar, Puneet (PKumar@trueposition.com)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 16:15:57 EST

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Hi SUN Gurus,

I have a problem with a Dat tape.

I made a tar file using the command :

cd <my_dir>
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0 <file_to_be_tarred>

I can extract this tarfile on the machine where I create the tar file , but
not on another machine . On this other machine, I get the following error :

 tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0
tar: tape read error

Same thing happens if I create a package on the DAT tape and try to install
on the 2 machines.

I tried increasing the capacity in /etc/device.tab also but it didn't help :

ctape0:/dev/rmt/0:::desc="Tape Drive" volume="tape" type="ctape"
removable="true" capacity="45539000" bufsize="15872" erasecmd="/usr/bin/mt
-f /dev/rmt/0 erase" removecmd="/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rmt/0 offline"

Please advise on what I can do here to get the second machine to be able to
extract the tarfile.

The file size is huge - more than 3.5 GB.

Thanks,
Puneet
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