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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Data recovery from a tar tape
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:31:55 GMT
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- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- :
- : No. When you write to the first track of a cartridge tape (QIC)
- : drive, the erase bar is activated and all the tracks on the tape are
- : erased at once. So even if you haven't written an entire track of
- : data, there will be large gaps in the the data on the other tracks.
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- I didn't know that: I assumed that "good" data could be found somewhere
- on the tape.
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- 'Splain me this: if the tape doesn't go to the end, and it (as far as
- I know) rewinds without passing through to the end, how does data
- get damaged?
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- Tony apl@world.std.com
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