3 Jul
2005
3 Jul
'05
1:12 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Sellam, if you have a scratch tape, the best way to validate your
hardware is to write and then read a backup. tar, cpio or whatever.
Obviously that won't address questions like head alignment, but it
will tell you whether your SCSI chain is right and you're talking to the
tape drive correctly.
And in the unimaginable case that you don't have a scratch tape,
contact me off-list. :)
Doc
Curt @ Atari Museum declared on Saturday 02 July
2005 10:31 pm:
Uhm, I really doubt that Sellam is trying to do backups from his Linux
system to 9-track tapes... I'm sure that he's trying to read tapes
written on something else (like maybe a PDP11 or something) on the Linux
box.
Correct.
I'll try again, though at this point I'd rather be shot in the head.