[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[James Knott]

On 08/10/2016 04:11 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> I did not write the code if I did then there would likely have been a
> verify phase.
> Some people kind of expect when you tell the drive to write the data
> its just written and if it were not there would be an error. Kind of
> like disk drives most times.

The 9 track tape drives I used to work on had a read after write head,
so errors could be detected during write.