How to read a damaged tape
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Apr 7 14:53:27 UTC 2006
Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> writes:
> I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with
> 4 files.
>
> The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read
> the others.
>
> Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of
> meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know I would
> end up at a random position in the middle of a file, but at least I
> could fast forward over the damaged file.
dd would be the first thing I would try...
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