4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
11:13 a.m.
Re:
I a have a lot of mag tape/cartridge tape that I would
like to analyze.
I there a program that would write the whole tape then read it back,
logging the retries and the errors.
Eric Smith has "tapecopy", which copies tapes to disk in a simple format.
I think a number of people use that ... but I don't recall it logging
error information.
I've got my own TAPEDISK, which does something similar. My format
allows me to record which records had errors or retries, where setmarks
are (for DDS), and optionally internally compress the data (using open
source zlib). If anyone's interested in my format, I'd be glad to
open it up. At present, I use it mostly to read/save tapes on HP 3000s
(where tape blocks can exceed 64 KB).
Stan
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