2 May
2002
2 May
'02
11:54 a.m.
At 04:10 PM 5/2/2002 -0400, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
No. And I see no useful purpose in including that in
the format.
If the read was recovered, you have the data; surely you would
*not* want to recreate a tape and make a previously marginal
block, marginal again on a clone?
Choosing between the loss of all the data, and a partial
copy, I'll take the partial copy.
I have many 8-inch disks with bad blocks. I'd like to preserve
the data if at all possible. A simplistic 'dd'-style read
won't preserve everything; it'll bail out when it has a problem.
It has nothing to do with any hope of recreating the original tape.
If all the data is recovered, sure you could make a copy from it.
If it isn't, then you have some of it, as opposed to none of it.
- John