Greetings Listers,

A little TAR assistance is needed. I 'TARed' 9 ASCII files of varying size
into
a single compressed archive file and then put that file to tape also using
TAR.
This tape is going to a AIX machine and these are the errors I received from
the vendor.


Mon Nov 27 15:55:11 2000
Maximum block size scanned for is 64K
Tape density Uncompressed Data DDS-2

2-0 ARCHIVE Python 04106-X (DAT)
  **medium error on read**
Medium error
<<End of tape>>

** End of scan **
Total Bytes : 0


Read retries : 30
Read soft errors : 30
Read corrected : 0

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

TIA


Dave Debus
HP Systems Manager
ARAMARK Educational Resources, Inc