🚀 go-pugleaf

 I have recently been having problems using tar-1.10 on my DECstation 5000/200s.
 I originally installed this version of tar-1.10 about 6 months ago and it
 appeared to work fine until recently.  The problem I'm having has to do with
 writing several tar files to the same DAT tape.  I like to use  mt fsf  to
 skip forward on the tape to the file I'm interested in reading or to the
 end of tape to write another tar file.  I'm finding that I can only skip
 about 2 files at a time if I try to skip more than that I get this error:
		/dev/nrmt0h fsf 5 failed: I/O error

 After skipping 3 files, I don't consistently get an error with mt but I do
 get an error with gtar (this is what I renamed tar-1.10 to):
	gtar -tvf gstars:/dev/nrmt0h
	gtar: read error on gstars:/dev/nrmt0h : No space left on device

 I know that this not the end of the tape because I can rewind it and use
 gtar to read every file starting from the beginning of the tape until I
 get to the last file at the end of the tape.  I'm not sure this is a
 problem with gtar since I get that error message when I use the mt command
 to skip forward on the tape.  Have you ever heard anything like this????
 It might have something to do with the mt command -- or more likely it is
 an error on the tape.  Is it possible that I can read across this error
 with gtar but not skip across it with mt?  Also problem doesn't seem to
 be linked to a specific tar file so I'm really puzzled.  Do you have
 any suggestions?  By the way, all of the files on this tape were written
 with tar-1.10 and I'm using the version of rmt that came with it since
 the DEC version didn't allow me to dump my Sun filesystems to the DAT drive
 on my DECstation.

 Thanks

 cliff

 cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu