On 10/20/05, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote: No. I would have recognized them if they had been such. These smaller blocks are anywhere from 9K up to but not quite 16K. I wouldn't have turned off the redundancy blocks - these tapes were meant to be archival. I wrote them on brand-new, never-written 3M Blackwatch tapes, at 1600 bpi, not 6250, in the hopes of more longevity. If I hadn't been gallavanting around the world over the past couple of years, I would have read these before, but here we are. I know they aren't a total loss, and I _do_ still have the hard drive these came from, but I figured I'd rather fiddle with tapes first and an ancient Fuji Eagle second (especially since the Eagle hangs off of an SI9900 attached to an 11/750 - something I haven't turned on since the day Software Results closed. Thanks for the confirmation. -ethan P.S. - nobody asked, but I _did_ clean the heads and rollers between each tape.