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Subject: Re: Recovering 4mm tar tapes
On 9/12/2016 6:05 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 12/09/2016 16:12, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a pair of 4mm DDS tapes from 1999 that I would like to recover.
I was able to read one with tar on a Debian (jessie) Linux system, but
the second gives
On 09/12/16 16:35, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> I tried using different blocksizes with no luck. Debian does have the
> mt command and I was able to use it to get the tape status, rewind and
> was able to have it move the tape forward a number of records (not sure
> what a record is)
>
> #mt -f
On 9/12/2016 6:05 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 12/09/2016 16:12, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a pair of 4mm DDS tapes from 1999 that I would like to recover.
I was able to read one with tar on a Debian (jessie) Linux system, but
the second gives an error.
The second tape is a 3M brand with
On 12/09/2016 16:12, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a pair of 4mm DDS tapes from 1999 that I would like to recover.
I was able to read one with tar on a Debian (jessie) Linux system, but
the second gives an error.
The second tape is a 3M brand with DDS markings and 4 bars next to the
DDS logo.
> On Sep 12, 2016, at 11:00 AM, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> Is the 2nd tape just bad and can't be read? Or do I need a
> slightly different tape drive?
It may be bad or perhaps it was written with a larger block size? I don’t
recall what tar does if the tape was written with a
I have a pair of 4mm DDS tapes from 1999 that I would like to recover.
I was able to read one with tar on a Debian (jessie) Linux system, but
the second gives an error.
The tape that I could read is a Sony with DDS markings and 4 bars next
to the DDS logo. It was written on an SGI computer.
