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From: ajayshah@alcor.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Exabyte experience
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Date: 12 Jul 90 09:07:53 GMT
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My first exayte ever too:

	I copied four logical files onto the exabyte using
	a command like
		tar cvbf 126 /dev/nrst0 directoryname
	(might have got something garbled there).

	Files 3 and 4 are fine.  I.e., if I say something like
		mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3
		tar tvbf /dev/nrst0
	then file 4 lists fine.  Ditto with file 3.

	Attempting to list the contents of File 1 and 2 gives "tar:
	premature EOF".  I wonder why.  All within a day of taking
	the backup.

It was a brand new SONY tape.  Could it be owing to
mishandling/screwups by me?  Any other experiences on exabyte
reliability.



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Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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