Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux...

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Thu May 2 17:04:29 2002

> > No (I can say this even though I'm about to ask): do you mean an
> > unrecoverable error, or one that was corrected by the hardware
> > (as opposed to being corrected by software)? Either way, if the
> > error was corrected, see my response above.
>
> This is useful -- if you are working with an only copy of a tape
> and it is marginal, this lets you record in the recovered image
> just which bits could not be reliably read.

I did mean to add that I saw *some* value in this...

-dq
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 17:04:29 BST

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