What's wrong with my tape drive?

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From: David Haight
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:38

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I loaned the tape drive from my Indigo to be used on a 4D/20.
It's come back and now I get the following:

tar tf /dev/tape
NOTICE: SCSI tape #5 Error, internal blksize is 0
tar: tape read error: Invalid argument


Anyone have an idea what might have happened?

Thanks for any help.



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From: davidh8@pogo.wv.tek.com (David Haight)
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Subject: What's wrong with my tape drive?
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Date: 27 Jan 93 23:38:30 GMT
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