Michael Orlando wrote:
> The 4mm Dat tape was created on an Onyx (Irix 6.2) using tar. When I
> try to read the tape on an O2 (Irix 6.5) machine is get the error:
> tar: tape premature EOF; may need to use -b option.
> Tried every key value combination with tar but nothing worked. I can
> write a tar tape on the O2, and the Onyx can read it. Just doesn’t
> seem to work the other way.
> Any ideas. Thanks.
> Michael
Can the O2 read any other tapes? Can it read tapes that it has written?
It may be a head alignment problem. I ran into a DAT tape issue like
this before with audio information on a professional audio deck.
Calibration may be necesssary.