28 Apr
2015
28 Apr
'15
12:47 a.m.
On 2015-04-28 00:42, Dave McGuire wrote:
That one I can definitely share.
Attaching it here, for other who might also find it useful.
Johnny
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On 04/27/2015 06:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I have most of them, but not BP2 V2.7. :-(
Oh, very good news...To bad about BP2 2.7, but that's ok, hopefully
it'll turn up somewhere.
I have already hunted for it for years without success... :-/
> Uh-oh...That "HDR1" business looks
like part of an ANSI tape label,
> not a filename. What do you think?
Definitely a corrupted tape.
Yup...After testing several other images from the trailing-edge
archive, I'm finding the same sort of mess. I knew the BP2 v2.7 image
was trashed, but it looks like quite a few others are as well. The
f77_v5_4.tpc one is corrupt too.
What a mess.
Thanks for your help in diagnosing this.
At least some earlier releases are intact, but do you know if any of
those newer ones have been archived intact anywhere? Do you have them? Can you share the tapes that you have?
I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with this in general. I'm not
totally comfortable with just distributing this. I should talk a bit
with the Bitsavers people on how they reason.
I've also
written a tool that can repair those broken tapes if they are
in BRU format. Unfortunately, a few (including the BP2 tape) are in DOS
format, and that format is much more difficult to repair.
Hmm, very nice! Would you be willing to share that as well?