On Friday 31 October 2003 23:18, Rick Duvall wrote: >Is there any way to write data on the entire length of a tape and > try to read it back to verify that all that was written over the > entire tape can be read? I like to compare it with a DOS scandisk, > only for a tape instead of a filesystem. > >Sincerely, > >Rick Duvall >Online Highways >System Administrator >(541) 997-8401 x 111
There is amverify, but AFAIK it only reads to the end of the data written, not to the actual EOT. As a comment, generally speaking, a bad tape is normally damaged in the first 2 feet, and in my experience if you can read the first file, you can read the rest of the tape. But that, and a buck will get you a cup of coffee most places too. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
