"Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K

[Peter J. Acklam]

"Sean Brown" <srbrown@appgeo.com> wrote:

>Problem Description:  I have a tape archive on a DDS3 tape
>created under GNU/Linux 2.2.18.  The tape was created with a
>blocksize of 512 and IS accessible and usable on the linux
>machine.  On the W2K machine using Cygwin, I get the following
>error when trying to list the contents of the tape:
>
>$ tar tvf /dev/st0
>tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: No space left on device
>tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

This is just a guess, but:  Does the reading tape drive support
the density you used when the tape was written?  I remember seeing
strange error messages when I had written a tape with density 35
and tried to read it with an older tape drive which only supported
densities up to 20.

Peter

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Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam


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