* Mack Earnhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:28:31AM -0500)

>> Had you rewound the tape?  Amrecover does not do so (or anything else), so
>> if it was at the end (or someplace in the middle), bad things will happen.

> It gives exactly the same messages (including amidxtaped.debug) whether 
> amrecover is preceeded by 'mt rewind' or 'mt fsf'.  Seems to make no 
> difference.  Many people have said amrecover doesn't rewind, but the 
> tape drive sure sounds like it does.

Ehm, this may be a stupid question,
but are you sure you are using the no-rewind tapedevice ?
usually called /dev/ntape /dev/nrtape or somesuch.

Please check your OS documentation


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