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Re: Arrrrrg!




Hi Tom,

You can always download TR6 from:
http://crocus.physics.mcmaster.ca/TASSData/

Cheers,
Doug

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 18:32, Tom Droege wrote:
> It would appear that I have written hundreds of bad image disks.  Sigh!  There 
> are too many disks to read each one so I have been spot checking images from 
> time to time.  While writing this months .cal files to the computer where I 
> am analyzing data I discovered that it would not read the ends of the files.  
> Looking at the image disks which have 80 images on each, I found that it 
> started making errors at image 64.
> 
> I guess I never spot checked a file at the end of the directory.  I do now.
> 
> I think all these disks have been written with K3B.  It seems to make it's own 
> decision about write speed regardless of what speed is set.  So at the end of 
> the disk (outside, I think) where the disk moves faster, the write speed is 
> too high.  xcdroast seems to fail at the other extreme, it decides to write 
> too slow.  
> 
> There is nothing that can be done about the lost images, I think.  Fortunately 
> all the processed data is well backed up.  Well, sort of, since I can't read 
> TR-6.  Hopefully I can get a copy of it from one of the three places I have 
> sent it.  Don't do anything yet as I have not exhausted attempts to read it.
> 
> Tom Droege

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