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- From: ad198@yfn.ysu.edu (Carl Landis)
- Subject: Tape archiving problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.190100.6436@news.ysu.edu>
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- Reply-To: ad198@yfn.ysu.edu (Carl Landis)
- Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:01:00 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- I have just received a SiliconGraphics Iris Indigo computer to be
- used in my department. The operating system is dubbed IRIX.
- I do not yet have a manual and the manual pages on the computer
- have been removed by the company that the computer came from.
- It uses a "4D Window Manager". My question is this: I attempted
- to backup the system on a 150M data cartridge. When I try to
- retrieve some of the files, I get the error message "tar: directory
- checksum error". Also at times, I get a message that it can not
- read the tape. The tape drive is a QC150 data cartridge tape drive.
- What does the message mean? Is the info on the tape lost or can
- I salvage it? My knowledge of UNIX commands is minimal; I usually
- work through the windows. The computer is stand-alone (not on a
- network).
-
- Any help will be appreciated. Please post here or to:
- ad198@yfn.ysu.edu.
-
- Thanks.
-
- -Carl Landis
-