Re: Testing of Archive tapes.

Con Woodall wrote: > The first 10 blocks contain enough to know that the tape is > readable on that drive. > This includes online version number and and a time > stamp. The time stamp is not exactly what you see in your online.log but > it is within a few seconds. I suspect there is more there if you > knew how to decipher it. My purpose was simply to know that the > archive tape was readable on a particular drive and that would > be recognized as an archive tape. Reading the first header means that it is a valid archive tape. But it does not mean that is is a good archive. Could be incomplete or a defective tape. I too would like a utility to scan thru and tell me that the tape is fully restorable. -- ================================================================= Alvin Koh <Alvin_Koh@PTS.MOT.COM> Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd Voice: +65 486-2055 Messaging Systems Products Group Fax: +65 483-3649 =================================================================