26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
9:29 a.m.
On Monday (11/26/2012 at 06:56AM -0700), cctech at vax-11.org wrote:
I've been able to recover tapes that were damaged by a gooey capstan
by reading the tape until a bad block appeared, cleaning the head,
and repeating.
Each pass transfers a little bit of goo from the tape to the head,
eventually removing enough to read the block.
Yes. Unfortunately, what I'm experiencing is the roller in the cartridge
embeds itself into the gooey capstan and then stops turning. It'll start
moving fine, seeking pretty far in and then begins turning slower and
slower until it finally fails with a motor stall error.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist