Got Videotrax card working

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, James Fogg wrote:

> > Anyway, I'd really like to know more about your experience if
> > you can remember any details.
>
> Well, it was a looong time ago. It was a short card with two RCA (phono)
> jacks as I recall. I had it installed in a Hyundai (yes, same as the car

That's the second generation card.

> maker) 386/DX20. I seem to recall I'd get somewhere in the middle of the
> tape during a restore and it would fail. I don't remember the nature of
> the failure. I also seem to recall it corrupting restored files on my
> disk.

Do you mean the restored files were corrupted, or the restore program
would corrupt files on the hard disk?  The latter is possible if the
restore aborted in the middle of the process.  The restore over-writes
whatever files are on the hard drive (if the name is the same).  I don't
think it would restore files that it cannot properly read from the tape.
It does seem to have pretty good error detection (not correction though).

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