Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!brock
From: brock@tuvie (Inst.f.Prakt.Info 1802)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Deteriorating Media
Summary: use /systest/ssr_util/cptape
Keywords: ct, disk
Message-ID: <729@tuvie>
Date: 10 Sep 89 17:40:38 GMT
References: <1082@neptune.AMD.COM> <13518@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ulrich@vip.UUCP (Ulrich Neumerkel)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna, EDP-Center
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In article <13518@well.UUCP> rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) writes:
>In article <1082@neptune.AMD.COM> markl@neptune.AMD.COM (Mark Luedtke) writes:
>>Question #1:
>>Does anyone know of a way to get at the data on the tape (probably the better
>>copy)?  RBAK dies at some location and will not find anything further, but if
>>I could get it to start looking further down, I should be able to access the
>>data.  An index, using RBAK, will pass the bad spot, but reading won't and
>>using '-f cur' tells me that the current location is unknown.  Can I use RWMT
>>in raw mode to build a file then RBAK from that file?  Any options at all
>>for the tape?
/systest/ssr_util/cptape should help
Ulrich