Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:47:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyway to get tape head past end of tape mark ? Message-ID: <199512140547.GAA26440@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512132215.PAA23386@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Dec 13, 95 03:15:12 pm
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As Ade Barkah wrote: > Uhm, I managed to get an end of tape mark to be written at the > very beginning of one tape. I don't know much about tapes, but > I think that means there are two filemarks written there now. > > Q: how can I recover from this ? You are not the first one. The only way to ``recover'' from this is to start writing a large file from the beginning of the tape, and the power-off the tape drive. =:-] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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