Also, prior to servo tracks on serpentine drives, there was a full-width erase head, so if you rewrite from BOT, ALL tracks are erased as it rolls to EOT.
The trick with killing power on 8mm and DAT works because they use helical recording. On 1/26/17 6:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/26/2017 06:01 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> That's a good point. Can it really be true that a tape error that >> creates a false EOT results in the loss of all remaining data? >> Surely the designers weren't *that* stupid? > > It happens. You can't skip over it or even space to EOT and then read > backwards. Some "intelligent" drives were really stupid. > > --Chuck >
