[HECnet] installing LPs on RSX

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-28 00:22, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 04/27/2015 06:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>     Uh-oh...That "HDR1" business looks like part of an ANSI tape label,
>>> not a filename.  What do you think?
>>
>> Definitely a corrupted tape.
>
>    Yup...After testing several other images from the trailing-edge
> archive, I'm finding the same sort of mess.  I knew the BP2 v2.7 image
> was trashed, but it looks like quite a few others are as well.  The
> f77_v5_4.tpc one is corrupt too.
>
>    What a mess.
>
>    Thanks for your help in diagnosing this.
>
>    At least some earlier releases are intact, but do you know if any of
> those newer ones have been archived intact anywhere?  Do you have them?

I have most of them, but not BP2 V2.7. :-(
I've also written a tool that can repair those broken tapes if they are 
in BRU format. Unfortunately, a few (including the BP2 tape) are in DOS 
format, and that format is much more difficult to repair.

	Johnny

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