Hi Mike

Sorry but I have to disagree, as I have been part of a group where we did it 
this. Unfortunately I don't work at that company anymore so I don't have 
access to the scripts and documentation we did.

Actually you could use mt to change EOM to EOF.

Regards
Michael

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:20:15 -0500, Mike L. Varney wrote
> This won't work, as when the tape is starting to be overwritten, the 
> EOM marker will be back towards the beginning of the tape.  You 
> won't be able to MT the tape past the EOM marker.
> 
> -- M
> 
> > Hello Jay
> >
> > If they have a unix media server, you may be able to extract the data
> with
> > tar, from the not yet overwritten part of the tapes.
> >
> > Regards
> > Michael


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