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Re: Re[2]: 19991006: COMET Case Study Tape Problems

>Date:19991007
>Organization:NOAA
>Keywords:199910062045.OAA16711 COMET casestudy tape

Hi Steve, 

I will order the tape for you in the low density format.
Your medium density command should work with the low density formatted
tape.

You should receive your new tape in a few days.
Sorry about the inconvenience-

In regards to the loading instructions, I am directing you to our URL
that has nice step by step instructions.
If after you receive the tape the directions are not clear enough please
contact me and we will make sure you get your data where you want it.

URL:http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/casedoc.htm#

-Jeff

Jeff Weber
Unidata/COMET Case Studies
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

address@hidden
PH:303-497-8676   
URL--http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber
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On 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Keighton wrote:

> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. From what I understand, the tape drive we have is NOT
> compatible with the high density tapes. I tried creating this device driver
> (0hnb) with the mknod command, but I don't really know what I'm doing. Trying
> the tar command again with the newly created /dev/rmt/0hnb again gave me the
> same "directory checksum error".
> 
> I guess what I need is a medium or low density tape with teh same data
> (actually, I only need 12mar93 and 13mar93 for what I want to do).  The README
> files I still need.
> 
> Anything you can do to help process this new request, I'd much appreciate. let
> me know if you need any other info from me. Thanks.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Subject:    Re: 19991006: COMET Case Study Tape Problems
> Author: address@hidden
> Date:       10/6/99 6:31 PM
> 
> >Date:19991006
> >Organization:NOAA
> >Keywords:199910062045.OAA16711 COMET casestudy tape
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I have checked the CODIAC archives and it indicates that you ordered the
> high density version of COMET Case Study 001.
> 
> Hopefully your tape drive can read high density formatted tapes.
> If so you only need to change your  command of:
> 
> tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0mnb
> 
> m for "medium density"
> 
> to this command....
> 
> tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0hnb
> 
> h for "high density"
> 
> 
> There are (2) tar files on the tape.
> 
> The command of:
> 
> tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0hnb
> 
> should generate the info files first, and then re-executing the tar
> command should release the data files.
> 
> This is done by the "n" in the command for no rewind.
> 
> After executing the tar command the second time you should have all the
> data, but execute the tar one more time to make sure there are no more tar
> files.Then you can rewoffl.
> 
> If your tape machine is not capable of high density reading and you do not
> have acces to a high density tape machine we will need to send you another
> tape in the low density format.
> 
> I hope this clears up some issues for you, if not please contact me again.
> 
> Or if you need the low format tape I can speed up that process for you as
> well.
> 
> Thank you for using the COMET Case Study Library,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> Jeff Weber
> Unidata/COMET Case Studies
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> 
> address@hidden
> PH:303-497-8676
> URL--http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber
> 
> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Unidata Support wrote:
> 
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message
> >
> > >To: address@hidden
> > >From: Stephen Keighton <address@hidden>
> > >Subject: COMET Case Study Tape Problems
> > >Organization: NOAA
> > >Keywords: 199910062045.OAA16711 COMET casestudy tape
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I ordered COMET CAse Study #1 on tape thru the CODIAC system some time ago,
>  and
> > just now got around to trying to extract the data from tape to my SAC (HPUX
> > 10.2). I followed instructions on the COMET Case Study page, and was
> > successfully able to fast-forward the tape to a desried file, but keep 
> > getting
> > "directory checksum error" each time I try a tar command (xvf or tvf 
> > options).
> > Also, how would I go about extracting the first tar file on the tape, which
> > apparently contains several reference files, such as README.INSTALL? Should 
> > I
>  be
> > able to do a "tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0mnb README.INSTALL" or is there a
>  filename.tar
> > I need to specify?
> >
> > Either there is a problem with my tape, or I need some more specific
> > instructions. Thanks very much.
> >
> > Steve Keighton
> > NWSO Blacksburg, VA
> >
> >
> > ------- End of Forwarded Message
> >
> >
>