From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 2 16:28:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.siteplus.com (aurora.siteplus.com [66.129.2.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8121B37B41F for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-216-78-5-87.jan.bellsouth.net (host-216-78-5-87.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.5.87]) by aurora.siteplus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA42578; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:27:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@jwweeks.com) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:27:08 -0500 (EST) From: jim To: Sam Cc: Doug Silver , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape error using Amanda/dump In-Reply-To: <3CAA0BF9.2CE0EB2A@vortex.wa4phy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Sam wrote: > FWIW, anybody know of a way to "rejuvinate" corrupted, > but otherwise little used tapes? Have you tried a large magnet? Sounds like a joke, but it works on other magnetic media. I used to see these commercial sold to clear VHS tapes. If the tape is otherwise un-usable, give it a try. -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message