Jonathan Goossen wrote: >> we ran into a company that had modified the 3490 microcode to read data that >> existed after the tapemark at the end of the overwriting data.
Sounds messy, but, luckily, this is not my machine... ;-) >There are at least two software vendors that sell products that read past the >end of data tape marks. I used one of them several years ago to recover data >from a tape that was accidentally overwritten due to a system crash. Will that stunt works with VTS? I mean, since VTS is supposed to *emulate* tapes (34980/3490/Magstar/etc), in theory you could do that little trick. Possibe or not? What will those hardware do when receiving such a CCW? Just curious... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht I have an IBM 5081 2260 tape (cylinder of rolled-up ugly brown tape within a transparent cap) sitting on my desk gathering dust after all these years. Do you get a VTS which could *emulate* those ancient toys? ;-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
