Re: [Dump-users] Saving that *last* tape that turns out bad...

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> I dug out the original tape drive that made the tapes.  Even
> though it was supposedly the same exact model (Seagate Scorpion
> 80), it read the tape without a problem, when the other drive
> just gave up on that one specific tape from the set over and
> over.
>
> Tape drives are such peculiar animals!

I suspect the heads or tape guides on one drive or the other are
slightly out of proper alignment.