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

[Alvin Starr]

On 08/10/2016 04:23 PM, James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
yes.
Till the software writes 0000000000000*
The tape full of zeros will verify quite correctly.

Its kind of like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mt0 count=100009.

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