On 2015-05-20 21:06, Jochen Kunz wrote:
And my 9-track
tapes are rotten to the point of uselessness too. They still worked most
of the time about 10 years ago.
It largely depends on storage conditions. I recently read some of my
old backup tapes from the mid 1980's with no problem. The drive did a
little bit of backing up and retrying, but I got 100% data recovery.
I've had some other tapes that were not stored in proper conditions
where all the oxide fell off and collected on the tape heads. (I'm
referring to 9 track tapes, here.)
Jon
