>
> Some drives will also permit you to fast forward beyond the EOT mark
> and then begin reading again, at which point scanner could recover what
> is left.  That is the trick, really: get beyond the EOT mark on the
> tape somehow, then scan the rest of the tape with scanner.

Do you know of any particular drives that allow the FF past EOT to
succeed?  I've never run into any, but I don't use many different tape
technologies.

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