tomclub Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I have some old 4mm back up tapes. they were made on OS 9 machine probably retrospect 3.x or something. i want to copy them to dvd but all of a sudden, they all show up "unrecognized content" I'm using an ATTO pci scsi card and i tried it on a few machines. if they're all bad, they all went bad at the same time and kind of suddenly because I was able to read a few of them a few months back on a different machine. is there a diffinitive way to tell if the tapes have gone bad? if so, is there a way to revive them? could it be hardware or software/os problem? Any ideas would be much appreciated!! also, if I can't work this out, does anyone know where I could send them to get the info off the tapes? is it expensive? thanks very much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 If you try this tape in another identical drive and it reports the same thing, then it is a bad tape. Clean your tape heads If all tapes report this, then it could be a drive problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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