reading tapes in bad conditions

Hi, This afternoon while reading some old tapes I discovered that they had been damaged by the previous owner. In particular one, that could be mounted without problems would just produce tons of errors. I decided to unrole it carefully and discovered that just after the aluminum (?) mark it had been probably crumbled up. Anybody know some trick to bring back at least part of it? I tried skipping blocks, records and files without success? I'm using VMS 7.2 and a Cipher SCSI tape. TIA e. ======================================================================== Enrico Badella email: enrico.badella(a)softstar.it Soft*Star srl eb(a)vax.cnuce.cnr.it InterNetworking Specialists tel: +39-011-746092 Via Camburzano 9 fax: +39-011-746487 10143 Torino, Italy Wanted, for hobbyist use, any type of PDP and microVAX hardware,software, manuals,schematics,etc. and DEC-10 docs or manuals ==========================================================================