Before posting, I did some extensive searching for other posts on the problem and tape cleaning came up a fair number of times. I have cleaned the drive with a cleaning cart. When I put the scsi card and tape drive into the other boxes (SCO 486/Linux PII) I used the same tape, and the same set of backup files for my tests - experienced no problem> tar: Skipping to next headermeans the tape was jumping around waiting for your system or ..> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errorsyour tape is bad .. and/or clean the head ...
I think this might be some type of conflict with the mobo perhaps?
and/or when writing .. find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0
Hmmm, can not seem to get the above command to work. Produces the following error:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.Looked at the buffer man page and tried several permutations of your command but could not get it to work. Besides it looks like buffer will only help writing the data to the tape... The problem I have is reading the data back off the tape. When I create the tar archive using: tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas there are no errors reported by tar. The problem is trying to read the data back from the archive just made.
c ya alvin
Ralph EagleKubinski Business Systems