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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: multiple dumps on EXB-8200 8mm tape
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.193949.7190@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:39:49 GMT
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- Dave Olson writes
- > > In <1992Jul24.181553.10455@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
- > | mt fsf's and bsf's behave this way too. A bsf leaves the tape on the front
- > | edge of the filemakr, and an fsf leaves it on the back.
- > |
- > | So if you kill an operation, and want to reposition the tape to start it
- again,
- > | you must do this:
- > | mt bsf 1
- > | mt fsf 1
- >
- > This is wrong. If you want to record on an Exabyte 8200, you
- > must be in one of 3 places: BOT, BOT side of a FM, or EOD. If I
- > remember correctly, the 8500 will also allow you to record at the EOD
- > side of a FM. So you do not want to do the mt fsf 1 after the bsf
- > if you want to overwrite some data on the tape for 8200's
- >
-
- Oops. You're correct.
-
- The receipe I orignally gave works for aborting and reading a file from the
- tape. If you read, and then wish to overwrite a file (This makes all data after
- this file inaccessible)
- mt bsf
- mt weof 2
- mt bsf
- file write operation.
-
- You want to leave a filemark behind seperating the two files, but you can only
- start writing at the beginning of a filemark, so you write two marks, then
- backspace to the spot inbetween.
-
- You are also correct about what happens when a program tries to read a
- filemark. Tar, and gnutar, however stop at the end of their file, and do not
- read the filemark. Thus you have to explicitly move the tape if you are using
- these in scripts.
-
- Thanks Dave for correcting my bad advice.
-