jbev@iscden.jbsys.com (Jim Bevier - J B Systems) (04/30/91)
I have a wangtek 150mb tape drive running on SCO unix SYS V R2 and backed up my system prior to doing a low level of my disk. After formatting, I restore the system from tape and was on my way. In trying to restore a user filesystem, I ran into a tape error on the save tape. I have tried everything I know to get past the error to recover the rest of the tape, but to no avail. The wangtek drive just retries and retries, until I get an I/O error. So....., how can I recover this data? The tape was a 3M DC600A. I have tried several other tape drives, and they can not read the tape at all. I think the wangtek recorded the 120mb tape at 150mb density, which makes it unreadable by other drives. If you cannot tell me how to recover the data, is there a place where I can send the tape to have the data recovered? The 80mb of data on the tape represents 18 months of hard work on a C compiler, RTL, and assembler. Along with other "stuff". BTW, my other backups of the file system also have an error!!!! Any info would be welcome. Thanks, Jim Bevier jbev@jbsys.com