Tape First Aid

[gwootton]

Hey everybody,
here's a link to that tape first aid software I was talking about.

http://www.geocities.com/greg_wootton/tapefirstaid.zip

Enjoy,
Greg

 

[weztgit]

Greg
I've got a 30G ADR tape in dire need of 'first aid', but your link seems dead. Do you have an alternative location?

Thanks
Simon

 

[gwootton]

<a href=&quot;

http://www.geocities.com/greg_woott...ocities.com/greg_wootton/tapefirstaid.zip</a>

should work, try pasting it into the address bar instead of just clicking on it.

 

[weztgit]

Greg
Thanks for the update on the link. It's unzipped as a 236KB exe file, but it won't run. (I'm on W2K). Any ideas as to what I could do?
Thanks
Simon

 

[gwootton]

hmm...It runs on my Win2k box, and win2k server...only thing I can think is to try downloading it again. 236 k is correct.

 

[weztgit]

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the last message. Tape First Aid was in fact loading, but taking ages because it couldn't find an ADR drive. I've got a DI30 and have installed Onstream Echo although I usually use Ntbackup (which won't let me access the damaged tape). I can see the drive in Device Manager and it looks OK. Any ideas as to how I could persuade the DI30 drive to become visible to Tape First Aid?

Simon

 

[gwootton]

Tape first aid doesn't work with non ADR drives. It only works with the ADR30/50 and the ADR2.60ide. There is no way to make it work with the DI30 because that drive uses a different writing scheme.

 

[weztgit]

So that would explain it. Thanks. I guess I'll have to buy a new tape then.