I have some data/backup tapes written with TAR, on a DLT1 (similar to DLT7000) drive, on an ahc0 (AHA2940W) controller.
Some of these tapes now throw errors when I try to read them. Is there any decent way to ignore those errors and read whatever good data must exist beyond the error point?
Right now, once the drive throws the error, the tape driver simply gives up and does not allow any further I/O. So commands such as:
dd if=/dev/sa0 conv=noerror,sync
don't work.
There must be some way to recover most of the contents of the tape, no?
Thanks...
Some of these tapes now throw errors when I try to read them. Is there any decent way to ignore those errors and read whatever good data must exist beyond the error point?
Right now, once the drive throws the error, the tape driver simply gives up and does not allow any further I/O. So commands such as:
dd if=/dev/sa0 conv=noerror,sync
don't work.
There must be some way to recover most of the contents of the tape, no?
Thanks...