9 Dec
1999
9 Dec
'99
12:07 p.m.
depending on the number of records skiped vmstpce
returns parity error
or EOT. There seems to be no correlation between number of records and error
type.
Keep in mind that VMSTPCE, by default, does a rewind before doing
the image, so your SET MAG/SKIP commands probably don't mean anything
anyway. You need /NOREWIND to force it to not rewind.
VMSTPCE also has the "/ERROR" switch to make it ignore erros. I
suspect your tape drive thinks its too smart to read past an error though.
I was thinking of strange suggestions like those to get
stuck RD53 working
again.
For 800 BPI, you can always move the start-of-tape marker past the
crinkled tape. This will work for *some*, but not all, 1600 BPI tape
drives too. (There's a ID burst at the start of a 1600 BPI tape that
some drives will insist on finding.) Same for 6250.
Eric, I guess you'll have to wait untill I have set
up again the 3420 tapes;
these probably are old enough to not be too smart.
What's the project, out of curiosity? I've only got a dozen 9-track
drives here that might help :-)
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9 Dec
9 Dec
9:05 p.m.
CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
I've never done this before. How do you exactly move the SOT marker? Doesn't
look like something that can be peeled off. Do you cut the bad tape off
and glue it behinh the marker? Please give me some hints.
Getting some iAPX 432 tools
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Keep in mind that VMSTPCE, by default, does a rewind before doing
the image, so your SET MAG/SKIP commands probably don't mean anything
anyway. You need /NOREWIND to force it to not rewind.
VMSTPCE also has the "/ERROR" switch to make it ignore erros. I
suspect your tape drive thinks its too smart to read past an error though.
I did study carefully the help ;-) also some time ago I was able to recover
an apparently bad tape with set mag/skip=record:2 and vmstpce/error
I was thinking
of strange suggestions like those to get stuck RD53 working
again.
For 800 BPI, you can always move the start-of-tape marker past the
crinkled tape. This will work for *some*, but not all, 1600 BPI tape Eric, I guess
you'll have to wait untill I have set up again the 3420 tapes;
these probably are old enough to not be too smart.
What's the project, out of curiosity? I've only got a dozen 9-track
drives here that might help :-)
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