Hi there,

I have been using tar archiver for more than 20 years.
A year ago I decided to list the contents of a magnetic tape
made in 2002. At that time I used tar program provided by
Debian. The contents came out with no problem at all.
I repeated the process a few time as per the following:
  tar -xvvf /dev/nst0
and everything worked just fine.
Today I try to list the contents again and I am getting the
following error:

root@machine:~# tar -xvvf /dev/nst0
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I have changed the magnetics tapes and also changed the
unit unsuccessfully.
I have also tried to compile old versions of tar with no luck.
What is wrong ?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Luiz

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