-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 10:20 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: ...
There are 2 categories of tape, those with a manufacturer's alignment track and those without.
Those with should also survive a multi-foot drop onto concrete. Those without will likely not survive. The reason is that the actual tape itself will move slightly after such a drop. Without an alignment track the drive will likely be unable to read the data from the proper location.
I would have thought that the recorded tracks hold enough info for a good reader to align itself, same as video tape players do. I thought the technology would be more advanced.
FYI: Media that has an alignment track laid down by the manufacturer will be destroyed by using a tape degausser, so a quick test to see if your drive uses an alignment track is to take a tape media you plan to throw-out and run a $30 tape degauser across it. If the tape fails to work at all, then you had an alignment track.
Funny that the drive can not create the alignment track. Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGEqbytTMYHG2NR9URAuWgAJ0UW/JX6K3sBxoGoAyyu1K0tlUwxACffFj+ ITUedGQj1m15rKrWHenfH0c= =IJzB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org