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How to skip over tape eof mark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Mandelstam)
Wed Aug 6 12:13:21 1997
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:46:06 +0200 (SAT)
From: Louis Mandelstam <lma@sacc.org.za>
Reply-To: Louis Mandelstam <lma@sacc.org.za>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, glug@linux.org.za,
unix-wiz@listserv.nodak.edu
Hi -
I have a tape here (Exabyte 8mm) which had 'mt eof' (write eof
marker) executed on it while the tape was wound to the beginning, when the
user meant 'mt eod' (seek to end of data). Easy typo that turned out to
be surprisingly lethal.
I presume the first file will be lost (the first few bytes of it at least)
but can anyone tell me how I can manage to get the st driver to skip over
this boo-boo so that the rest of the tape can still be accessed?
I've checked the mt manpage - I can't get it to seek past the wrongful
eof/eod mark, and I can't find a st option to allow me to skip over
either.
No luck with AltaVista, either.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Regards
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