On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:36:13PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OK, this is a bit out of topic, but I really don't know where to ask.
> 
> I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with
> 4 files (not an Amanad tape, just plain tar).
> 
> 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.
> 

Just ideas, YMMV.

dd to devnull
dd with skip x records to devnull
mt asf
mt eom then mt bsf

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