* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:14:26PM -0500)
>>Now, am not 100% certain on how taper does write the files to tape ...
>
> Very quick review:
>
> Rewind
>
> Read the label and verify
>
> Rewind
>
> Write a new label and tapemark
>
> Write a header, image and tapemark
>
> Write a header, image and tapemark
>
> ...
>
> Write the trailing label, tapemark and quit (leaving the tape where it is)
>>... Why not [save] the last one in tapelist, and/or amount of tape used?
> That's the plan.
Why not go one step further,
and write this information in the tapelabel.
Of course, this breaks if fsf is broken ...
>>so, now you are effectively doing an 'mt fsf <last field>' to get to end
>>of tape ...
> True. The problem is that the drive may screw up. You may tell it to
> skip 37 files and it skips 36 (or 38, or 10, or 100 ...). So you have to
Is this still the case with newer tape drives ?
I cannot remeber ever having this probelm with exabyte , mammoth or LTO
tapes.
Come to think of it, I cannot even remeber it ahppening in the huge
reel-to-reel tapedrive we used way back when, and that was a pretty bad
piece of work ;)
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