Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dvadura From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Problem copying a cartrige tape Message-ID: <18890@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 21:22:32 GMT Reply-To: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo Lines: 38 I have a sr97 Maple 4.2 tape and I want to copy it... (on DN3500 running 10.1) so I perform the following..., >/systest/ssr_util/cptape -r test -dev ct >calypso.root[39]% ls -l >total 31825 >-rwxr--r-- 1 root 10792960 Nov 2 15:25 maple42.sr10 >-rwxr--r-- 1 root 10831360 Nov 2 16:35 maple42.sr97 >-rwx------ 1 root 10831360 Dec 1 15:39 test and when I do the rbak I get the error... >calypso.root[40]% rbak -index -from test -all | more >Starting index: > > >** Tape i/o error -- DATA LOST. > > >** UID in block header does not match those read from earlier blocks. >correct uid = 4D41504C.45202020, uid read = 40C8C80D.80018A2C, block 11 >?(rbak) (next_block) Fatal error. similar errors occurr if I copy the file to tape using cptape, and then try the rbak from tape. Anybody have any ideas? What does the UID mismatch mean? I couldn't find it any of the manuals that I have. -thanks -dennis -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another rescue ruined by the total |Dennis UUCP,BITNET: dvadura@water lack of danger. |Vadura EDU,CDN,CSNET: dvadura@waterloo ================================================================================