I am trying to load the MacroModel distribution from a 4mm DAT tape, but I am getting errors when trying to read the tape(see below). What should I do?
tar: tape premature EOF or tar: tape read error: Not enough space We write our DAT tapes using a block size of 20(which translates to 20 x 512 bytes=10240 bytes). Unfortunately, it seems that some DAT drives are not able to automatically or correctly detect the blocksize of our tapes. If the command: tar xvmo is not successful, please try: tar xvmob 20 If that is not succesful, please try: mt setblksz 10240 tar xvmob 20 If neither of the above suggestions work, you can try to copy the tar file from the tape to your hard drive, then untar the file on your hard drive. Please note that you will need approximately 160 megabytes of free disk space to try this. If you are successful in untaring the file that is now on your hard drive, you can then delete the tar file from the hard drive to free up that disk space. First type the command: dd if=/dev/tape of=mmod.tar ibs=10240 The above command will simply copy the tar file from the DAT tape to your hard drive. When the tar file has finished b
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