[Wylug-discuss] Read past EOD/EOF on Tape

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Nick Moulsdale wrote:

> Forget the specifics of Arkeia, I believe there must be a way to read this
> 197 GB using dd or something similar?
>
> Anyone got any really bright ideas? I know whenever I want the impossible
> done, under Linux its possible.

Can you not do something like:

mt rewind
mt fsf 1
dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/broken-dump

Otherwise, can you do:

mt rewind
dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null
dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/broken-dump

Sorry if I'm wild of the mark, but I thought I'd throw it out there on the off
chance.

jh

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