One solution I have heard used is to start writing at EOT,
and then power down the drive before it has a chance to write
the special EOT mark. A similar system may work on other
drives, but it risks some of the data after the EOT.
Even if that was feasible for m/f tapes, the OP just reinitialized the
tapes with IEHINITT. It would be doubtful that he could power down in
the tiny interval between writiing the tape labels and TMs, and the EOT
mark.
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