12 Aug
2016
12 Aug
'16
11:19 a.m.
On Aug 12, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 08/11/2016 10:50 PM, jim stephens wrote:
I think some drives can handle mid-tape density changes. It may even have been done by
DEC, though I may be confusing that with the odd case of RSTS distribution tapes which
started out with a DOS-11 label and then switched to ANSI labels.
paul
That sounds like someone just set a Cipher 990 or
such to 6240 GCR
and overwrote it. The 1600bpi was residue which was previous tape
contents?
No, that's the odd thing--both files (tar) were complete from beginning
to end. The first was a smaller version of the second, but otherwise
complete. We'll never know how the thing got that way.