> Kathleen,
> 
> The obvious answer is to clone again, but I realize thats no what you want to 
> hear. It does however read the complete tape again and verifies that it is ok 
> both in data and in structure.
> 
> Simple data only could be done with just reading the tape with a tool like dd 
> on unix but that only validates that the tape is readable and not that it is 
> internally consistent.

uasm <device>

will do sanity checking of the tape.

Dag

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