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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Data recovery from a tar tape
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:26:59 GMT
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- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- :
- : As you can see, even if you could convince the drive the read past the
- : second EOF mark (which you can't), most of your old data has already
- : been erased. This is a function of the hardware design of a QIC tape
- : drive, and happens regardless of which archiving program (tar, cpio,
- : etc.) you use.
-
- My wife has been telling me that I need a break, and I guess she's right.
- I didn't know that the data path was serpentine (so I learned something
- there, thank you Marc), but I knew damn well that you can't get past
- EOF, because I went through this years ago trying everything I could
- think of and finally gave up. Yet, somehow that just passed right out of my
- head and I was *positive* I could skip right by it :-).
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- I should have paid attention to how many other things I've screwed up
- this week! But, nooo...
-
- Therefore, on the advice of my wife, I am refaining from attempting to
- use what is left of my brain for anything more involved than formatting
- floppies.
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- All I have scheduled for next week is an addition of an Seagate ST-251 at
- one site and a change from Computone to Digi at another. I really think
- I can handle these without destroying anything... but my wife is shaking
- her head quite dubiously.
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- Tony apl@world.std.com
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- Lawrence & Clark, Inc (617) 762-0707 (206) 323-2864
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- Kevin Clark is embarrassed by most of what I say.
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