Hi Gehrke,
why do you think that the header is damaged? Please, show us
the log.
> I have two QTR-1 Travan Tapes which cause endless shoeshining to my tapedrive.
> The headers of the two seem to be damaged. At least that is what I read in my
> /var/log/messages and what I guess from the fact that my drive works fine with
> another(new)one.
> Is there a way to reuse them? They are nearly new tapes.
> ...
If the headers are really damaged you may try to format your
tapes with ftformat.
Martin
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