Hi!



Paul Bijnens wrote:

...
The tapes with servo-tracks ARE able to detect EOT: that information
is found in their servo-tracks.  (I'm not sure how/if a damaged servo
track can result in premature End Of Tape.)

The helical scan type drives detect End Of Tape as a hard write error
on the same spot.  They cannot distinguish the real end of tape from
a hard write error.  Some of the drives seem to guess the end of tape
by measuring the spindle speed of one or both the reels, but can only
approximately indicate "near" end of tape.

Where are the old days, when ANSI tapes had these metal patches to indicate
BOT and EOT ....  ;-)


Bye, Peter
WOTLmade