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From: reg@whuxl.UUCP (R. E. Gunderman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: 6300/Xenix file backup problem
Message-ID: <1235@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 08:20:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuxl.1235
Posted: Fri Aug 22 08:20:37 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Aug-86 05:11:46 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany
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I have a 6300, Xenix, and a 10 meg disk. In backing up a number of files:
    + I formatted a new floppy
    + executed
	tar cvf /dev/fd0 <list of filenames>
and I received this message:
"can't write beyond end of floppy"
"tar: tape write error"

I then reduced the number of files, executed tar again, and the error
messages did not appear. However, when I checked the contents of the floppy with
	tar vt
I received another, though different, message:
"tar: directory checksum error"

I repeated the above procedure with another new floppy and got  the
same results.

I would appreciate any explanations/clarifications/advice concerning this
problem.

		Dick Gunderman   whuxh!reg  386-3480  WH3A-326