This is a case of idle curiosity and not an urgent need
to recover a valuable backup. I found an old DAT tape and
attempted to read it on the very drive that probably once wrote
it and it appears to read the tape properly in that I can use dd
to copy it to a file and mt fsf 5, for example,
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
This is a case of idle curiosity and not an urgent need
to recover a valuable backup. I found an old DAT tape and
attempted to read it on the very drive that probably once wrote
it and it appears to read the tape properly
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On 03/15/2012 14:02, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
This is a case of idle curiosity and not an urgent need to
recover a valuable backup. I found an old DAT tape and attempted
to read it
On Mar 15, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
I opened it with dd files=2 if=/dev/sa0 of=testfile and
then did the strings utility on testfile and got:
What does file testfile think?
(od -ax on the first part of the file might be informative, also.)
Regards,
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-Chuck
