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From: root@evtprp0b.UUCP (Eric T. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Is my SR 10.2 tape hosed?
Message-ID: <152@evtprp0b.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 90 16:46:09 GMT
References: <1990May31.202114.18004@groucho> <1789@trlluna.trl.oz>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services Everett Propulsion, Everett WA
Lines: 41

In article <1789@trlluna.trl.oz> andrews@afflatus.trl.oz.au writes:
>In article <1990May31.202114.18004@groucho>, simon@groucho (Mike Simon) writes:
>> 
>> 	I'm trying to install SR 10.2 on a DN3500 for
>> the first time (both it and myself are virgins
>> at this point.)  All goes well through system testing
>> and so forth until ....
>> 
>>   **Stops with the following error message:
>> 		**UID in block header does not match
>> 		  those read from earlier blocks....
>
>We have seen this problem on most (but not all) of the stuff Apollo have
>sent us for 10.2 installation.  It didn't happen on the OS installation
>but has happened on everything we have received since (including DSEE,
>Framemaker, patch tapes).  Suspecting the tape drive or the 10.2 version
>of rbak we tried to read it on the following machine/OS combinations and
>all failed:

The problem appears to be with the SR10.2 version of cptape, found in the 
/systest/ssr_util directory. I called Apollo/HP on it and they stated for
the record that the utility is A) unsupported, as if that's anything new, 
and, B) that is was a much missused utility so if it goes away so much
the better. The solution is to save an SR10.1 version of the utility and
to use it instead. Since I recovered the old version I have had no problems
whatsoever with block header errors. The SR10.2 version does, however, seem  
to work on some nodes but not others. I suspect it is a problem with the 
type of tape drives SCSI, vs the old type as well as the node type.

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