David Cooley wrote:

> It wrote all 4 ISO's to the tape.  I verified them before I went home.
> Got home, fired up the Ultra2 and dropped in the tape.  Typed "tar -xvf
> /dev/st0".
> It accessed the tape then gave:
> 
> tar: read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
> tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> I then took it back to work and popped it into the E450's 8505XL drive and
> it read it just fine.
> Any ideas what's going on and what I can do to extract it from tape under
> Linux?

mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 1024

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