TAPECERT
A Tape Certification Utility for Dec Vax/Vms Computers
A tape certification program tests the usability of magnetic tape at different densities by writing test patterns and re-reading them. The ability to certify tapes is important in environments that do large amounts of tape processing. TAPECERT is a VAX utility for tape certification in use at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory which handles data from projects such as Voyager and Galileo. TAPECERT allows the user to select the tape density, the test pattern to use, the number of allowed retries, and whether to allow extended interrecord gaps to skip past bad spots on the tape. The program displays system error messages (parity errors, for instance) and record count information, with totals every 1000 blocks. TAPECERT is designed such that command procedures can be set up with defaults for different types of certification runs.
Program Size: 420 Statements
Computer Language: FORTRAN 77
Copyright (c) 1996 Pacific HiTech, Inc. and COSMIC 
