18 Jul
2006
18 Jul
'06
5:11 p.m.
g-wright at att.net wrote:
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From: "Nico de Jong" <nico at farumdata.dk>
If It Helps ...........
Some place out there, there use to be a tape reading tool
that would read the tape backwards. I believe is was
run under linux ??? I have never used it.
- jerry
What type of tape? If QIC other than HP (QIC-24, etc) there is no way
that most of the drives did that. They actually read on all forward
operations,
and kept track of the recorded end of media. (not the holes).
It is possible that the Tandberg had such, but for most drives including the
Tandberg there is no published way to do that.
Some 1/2" tapes could to a read reverse, but most helical scan or qic
drives could not, due to the way the data was recorded, and retries
were accomplished.
also 3480 and 3490 can do read reverse.
jim