From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 13 21:51:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA07542 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07531 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA17560; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:51:33 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA23452; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:51:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA26440; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:47:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512140547.GAA26440@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Anyway to get tape head past end of tape mark ? To: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:47:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512132215.PAA23386@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Dec 13, 95 03:15:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)