Hello, I have several Ditto Max tape cartiridges that were previously used under windows. They are the 3.5 GB tapes and were compressed with whatever method Iomega used for the Ditto Max drives. I do not know if it was hardware or software compression or the type. Anyway, I would like to retrieve the data off of these disks before I erase them. I have tried to use tar, which naturally failed, and I also attempted to use dd. dd reports this: # dd if=/dev/ftape of=ft dd: /dev/ftape: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out # I understand from the documentation that it is not possible to read or write to the dos format, however, is it possible to grab the data byte for byte, ignoring the format. If it is not possible to do this without writing additional software, could someone point out a few good resources of technical documents on the dos/windows filesystem and other tips and information I will need. I am a fairly adept programmer, but I have not dealt with filesystem or hardware issues before. Thank you.
