> The other trick that the insanely-desperate can try is to overwrite the
> EOT without putting down a new EOT.  This can be done by writing data to
> the drive (using something like tar or dd) so that you "know" you're past
> the double EOF marks, and then power the tape drive off so that it doesn't
> get a chance to write a new double EOF.  It will certainly destroy part
> or all of what's immediately after the original EOT, but it might allow
> you to get at the rest of the tape.

Yes, that's the technique I was referring to earlier.

It's been a few years since I tried it on a DLT7K, but my memory tells
me that I got lots of "synchronization" errors after I attempted to
space past the overwritten EOT.  I couldn't get 'mt' to find another
file mark.

It could be one of those things that works sometimes but not every
time.  I never tested it again.

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