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Old 05-13-2009
tar: 0511-193 An error
Hi all,

when i exucte comman to see the contents of tape it gives an error like
tar: 0511-193 An error occurred while reading from the media.
The media surface is damaged
and insert clean catridge tape to clean the tape in tape then again i got the same.when i excute the same above command agains another tape then it shows the contents of tape.i think that tape has been damage.please send me any idea if any body has, this will be higly appreciate.thanks a lot in advance.
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Old 05-14-2009
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Originally Posted by younusdba
The media surface is damaged
[...]i think that tape has been damage.
This seems to be quite likely in light of the error message you quoted. How can we assisst you in this? Buy a new tape and send it to you? Tell you that the error message "surface is damaged" means that the surface of the tape is really indeed damaged?

Please advise.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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