HELP: Reading past EOT on a SCSI tape.

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From: Dominic A. Varley
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 16:59

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Hi All,

Can you help with a problem.  I have a SCSI tape with multiple volumes
of data on it.  But unfortunately, a new volume was added at the start
of the tape.  Now I cannot read past the end of this first volume.  I
always get the same error when I try and skip the next volume using mt.  
I believe that an "end of tape marker" has been placed at the end of the
first volume.  How can I read past this?

Here are the two mt commands and the error.

% mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1				# read to end of first vol.
% mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1				# read to end of next vol.
/dev/nrst0 fsf 1 failed: I/O error

Thanks.

dom.

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