Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!wesommer From: wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: tar Message-ID: <8903070131.AA03027@ra.mit.edu> Date: 7 Mar 89 01:31:17 GMT References: <8903061831.AA01528@atlantis> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 8 Have you tried doing rbak -dev ct -rewind prior to the tar? That command is often needed to initialize the tape library (TFP). For those of you who prefer to do it without resorting to Aegis-isms, "mt -f /dev/rct8 rew" also works. - Bill