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From: zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond)
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Subject: pax
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Date: 2 Jun 89 18:53:53 GMT
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Has anyone successfully ported pax to a 3130?  I tried doing so.
I (apparently) successfully wrote a two-volume tape with the
command
	pax -wb400b -t /dev/rmt1
When I tried to restore the files with the command
	pax -rvop -t /dev/rmt1
at the end of the tape I got multiple lines of the form
	pax: [offset 47m+<x>k+0]: I/O error
(with <x>'s ... 192 197 202 207 212)
and then
	pax: ./user/dir/file : Corrupt archive data
	./user/dir/file
and then it died.

Anyone care to shed some light on this?

Thanks.

		Jim Diamond
		zsd@pig.drea.dnd.ca

P.S.  The system has what I assume is the standard 3130 tape
      drive: it is capable of writing about 45 Mbyte on a 450
      foot tape.  Do those of you with a similar configuration
      notice that the tape drive reads much more slowly than
      it writes, or do I have a defective drive?
      "How much more slowly?", you ask?  Let me put it this way:
      the tape drive was what inspired the choice of system name.