19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
10:42 a.m.
(1600 bpi), and some report a few hundred records of
16384, then a few
at a smaller number, then more at 16384, etc. I'd think there were
some read problems, but the tape wasn't shoe-shining
Are the "smaller sized" records 80 bytes, and have tape marks
near them? If so, these are the ANSI tape labels for volume start/end
and saveset start/end.
Even though you mount VMS BACKUP tapes /FOREIGN on
a VMS system, they still have ANSI labels on them.
If there are truly damaged records then the redundancy blocks
(unless you turned them off) will help you.
Tim.