Because on older tape drives (DDS, DLT, ...) one EOF means End of File; 
two consecutive EOF marks with nothing between means End of Data.

On all modern drives only one EOF is necessary.


On 05/06/2017 04:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> 3. Mount each tape one at a time, and with mt rewind the tape and write
>> two EOF marks.
> Why two EOF marks?
>


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