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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 8mm tape drive I/O error Post 29225 by janr on Wednesday 2nd of October 2002 03:10:21 AM
Old 10-02-2002
Tools Some questions

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suddenly I receive this error message when I want to use the 8mm tape drive
What do you mean with suddenly, how long did the tape run before you get the error message.

QUESTIONS?

1) Did the tape(-drive) worked before correctly?
2) Did you try a new (other) tape?
3) Does the data fit on the tape, do you reach 'end of tape'
 

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tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination] DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end. When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des- tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro- duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape. The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example, example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5) NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests. SunOS 5.10 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)
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