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 -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
