18 Jul
2006
18 Jul
'06
4:16 p.m.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Nico de Jong" <nico at farumdata.dk>
From: "Al Kossow" <aek at
bitsavers.org>
If It Helps ...........
Some place out there, there use to be a tape reading tool
that would read the tape backwards. I believe is was
run under linux ??? I have never used it.
- jerry
You should be able to connect the heads directly
to the preamp, and use
the
tapewizl directly. I was going to try recovering
HP and Apple 40meg tapes
this way using a TU58 transport. I haven't looked at the head geometry on
the different drives that take DC100 carts yet, though. I know I've
scanned
some documentation on the 3M transport, will need
to see if I've pdf'ed it
yet.
Would this principle work for recovery of 4mm (DAT) and 8 mm (Exabyte)
tapes? It happens regularly that customers ask if I can read "behind" a
small file they "happened" to write. I have no problems with 9 track and
3480/3490's.
Nico