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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Help: TK-50 data recovery.
- Message-ID: <00965E27.E502CD60.31340@nscvax.princeton.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:06:34 GMT
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- Paul
- <munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cc.curtin.edu.au!zrepachol@uunet.uu.net>
- writes:
-
- >
- >Hi all,
- > A friend has a little problem with some TK-50 tapes... Yeah, he put them
- >in a drive,:-( , and the drive SEEMS to have erased the header/pre-amble
- >from the tapes the drive has ee replaced and now he can't read the tapes.
- >
- >So, is it AT ALL possile to recover the its off the tapes i this case?
- >Can the TK-50 be conned into reading the tape and ignoring the lack of
- >pre-amble? Can someone in DEC do this for them if need be? They have
- >a lot of mass-spectrometer data they realy would like back.
- >
-
- Your friend has *big* problem. His data is gone! Forever! It
- might have been recoverable from a reel-to-reel tape but DEC cartridge tape
- drives and controllers simply will not read a tape that has been
- initialized or one that has any uncorrectable error. Short of a complete
- rewrite of the controller firmware, which DEC does not seem inclined to do,
- there is no way to read those tapes.
-
- I would suggest to everyone, that entrusting your only copy of
- valuable data to a TK-xx cartridge is not a wise thing to do. Make two
- copies, or three! Better yet, make a copy or two on some other type of
- medium.
-
- I hope that you subscribe to the list (or read the newsgroup)
- because the only address that reached me is the "cybercrud" which begins
- this message and I very much doubt that it is a replyable address.
-
-
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- * dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu *
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- * Richard B. Gilbert *
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