On 08/11/2016 10:50 PM, jim stephens wrote: > That sounds like someone just set a Cipher 990 or such to 6240 GCR > and overwrote it. The 1600bpi was residue which was previous tape > contents?
No, that's the odd thing--both files (tar) were complete from beginning to end. The first was a smaller version of the second, but otherwise complete. We'll never know how the thing got that way. --Chuck