At 07:43 PM 7/17/02 , Curt Sampson wrote:
>if you're using tape, you really should be verifying you can read every
>single one you write
Professional quality tape drives do read-after-write with a separate head
during the same pass, so the tape has already been read.
If you're using quarter-inch-cartridges or something like it, then yes, by
all means to a test read. But DDS and DLTs can detect a write error and
correct it on the fly.
-crl
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