On Friday 31 October 2003 23:18, Rick Duvall wrote:
>Is there any way to write data on the entire length of a tape and
> try to read it back to verify that all that was written over the
> entire tape can be read?  I like to compare it with a DOS scandisk,
> only for a tape instead of a filesystem.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rick Duvall
>Online Highways
>System Administrator
>(541) 997-8401 x 111

There is amverify, but AFAIK it only reads to the end of the data 
written, not to the actual EOT.

As a comment, generally speaking, a bad tape is normally damaged in 
the first 2 feet, and in my experience if you can read the first 
file, you can read the rest of the tape.  But that, and a buck will 
get you a cup of coffee most places too.

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