Reading 9-track tapes in Linux

Vintage Computer Festival vcf at siconic.com
Sun Jul 3 16:08:48 CDT 2005


On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:

>    Sellam, if you have a scratch tape, the best way to validate your
> hardware is to write and then read a backup.  tar, cpio or whatever.

Indeed.  I thought of doing this last night so I'll attempt this when I
next try to get this stuff working.

:)

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