12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
11:16 a.m.
On Sep 12, 2016, at 11:00 AM, cctech-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
Is the 2nd tape just bad and can't be read? Or do I need a
slightly different tape drive?
It may be bad or perhaps it was written with a larger block size? I don?t recall what tar
does if the tape was written with a record size larger than the default. You might try
using
dd if=/dev/st0 bs=65532 of=...
on the tape to see if you can read it at all. I don?t recall what the maximum record size
on these tapes are, but it seems like it isn?t a full 65KiB. Also, make sure the drive is
not configured for fixed block mode.