imaging DC600A QIC tapes

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:12 -0700, emanuel stiebler wrote: Will take a look at that - thanks. Next question - anyone think of a good reason why a lot of old tapes I have containing tar archives seem to hit read errors at around 7.8MB into the tape? This is reading a pile of *unknown* DC600 tapes in a 150MB drive. I can't think of any reason why a lot of the tapes hit problems at almost exactly the same point; I mean the head and motor assembly must be fine to get that far. But equally it seems odd. Maybe tar has a "don't break at 8MB-ish" parameter or something ;) Or maybe the 150MB QIC drives aren't completely backwards-compatible with the 60MB ones.... (these particular tapes are old, I don't know how many times they've been used, what system wrote them even - but chunks of errors in the same place seems like a strange coincidence!) thoughts? Tried cleaning the drive already before anyone mentions it :) cheers Jules