Comment by jandrese
3 years ago
Wasn't the whole selling point of these drives that they were able to encode more on the tape than their competitors? I figure that must include some clever tricks.
3 years ago
Wasn't the whole selling point of these drives that they were able to encode more on the tape than their competitors? I figure that must include some clever tricks.
The data format is documented at a high level here:
https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main...
It's a linear, 192-track format that's read 8 tracks at a time. The other files in that repo are also worth reading.