So, if the first 2 feet are damaged, then can't I take the cartridge apart and cut the first 2 feet off of the reel and re-assemble the cartridge?
Where these tapes are hanging up is about the 6th filesystem tarred and written to tape. The amverify is failing on the 6th fileno. Sincerely, Rick Duvall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Verify Tape Integrity > 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. > >
