Quoting Simon Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> ooops, lucky I got the disk backup, I get Input Output errors on the
> original tape, other tapes work fine.
> Thanks for that command. Does one of the options display the files on the
> tape?
> 

Regrettably, no... not as far as I'm aware...

One of the cognescenti may be able to give you the appropriate "dd" command to 
dump the tape to a disk file, albeit a bloody large one !!!

With mt, of you export TAPE=/dev/st0, then mt status, etc will work.

Jon

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