Re: Help: TK-50 data recovery.

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From: zrepachol
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:34

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In article <1992Dec30.193246.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au 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.
> 

Several people have replied, but all seemed to have missed the point, we can
read ANY bits off the tape... In fact we can even get it to set the ' volume
valid ' bit to mount it.

So, is it possible to set a TMSCP equivalent of the disk ' allow self destruct'
unit online comand? or some such. Is there any way to force the drive to keep
going in spite of 'fatal' errors?

~Paul

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