I work with seismic data. I havent tried to read the tapes in linux yet,
our exabyte drive is on a windows box. If you want I can read the 8mm
tapes and burn the SEG-y file to DVD for you,.. If you bring your 112m
drive i can do the same for those tapes as well.
Dennis Bourn
IT / Geo-Tech
CLK Energy
dbourn@clkenergy.com
Shannon Roddy wrote:
> Anyone here ever do any work with 3d seismic data, as in oil
> exploration surveys. Someone I know has 4 data tapes (8mm 112m tapes)
> that we tried reading in an exabyte drive on Linux. dd wouldn't even
> take a bit for bit image of the tape. Does anyone know if the oil
> industry uses something special to write these tapes? After some
> googling we suspect that the files are written to the tape in an
> industry standard known as SEG-Y that has been around since the 70s.
> There is even some software for Linux we dug up that should have read
> the files, however I think we are dealing with a tape format
> incompatibility. Anyone have a clue?
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
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