One is that the DDS tape drive on HP-UX has hardware compression and the other UNIX systems do not have a compatible drive to read this compressed data. The other possibility is that the block sizes are not compatible. Many versions of tar and cpio require matching record sizes and will not report the correct error message if the block size is not compatible. Look at the tar option b , and cpio option B . I administer many systems remotely.
Several systems have multiple boot disks.
An automated boot will always boot from the primary path. However, you can temporarily designate another primary path with this command. This command allows you to set the primary path, alternate path, autoboot, and autosearch. The command can be run interactively. You will be prompted for a source depot and can select from the associated products.