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RE: "Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K
- From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam at online dot no>
- To: "Sean Brown" <srbrown at appgeo dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:10:03 +0100
- Subject: RE: "Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K
"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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