[6590] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: DAT problemo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Thu Jun 3 06:07:03 1999
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 3 Jun 1999 12:04:42 +0200
Russell Berry <russ@berrex.com> wrote:
> so there's the dilemma, I could care less about the first dump file /, and I
> know it spanned 71785 blocks, (now these blocks counted as dump blocks of 1024
> bytes, not tape blocks of 16384) To read the tape at all I have to setblk
Try this. Might not work.
mt -f /dev/nst0 eom
mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 16384
mt -f /dev/nst0 bsf 1
access file here.
Or, try to move with fsf. In *some* cases, you can recover the files.
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