tar/tape error recovery

[David C. Anderson]

Tar loses if there are any hard errors on the tape.  Dump may be
somewhat better, but doesn't provide nearly the functionality.  I am
looking for a tape migration facility (a la tops-20) that handles
real-life tape errors, or failing that, a driver that sits on top of the
raw driver that does error encoding and correction so I can use tar with
it.  Any suggestions?  Send me mail as I don't read the bboards
regularly.

						dca at mit-eddie