> With rewinding you mean: forward skipping? AFAIK this is prevented by > the hardware and not overrable by software. Investigating the > recoverability of overwritten data on tapes in the past, we ran into a > company that had modified the 3490 microcode to read data that existed > after the tapemark at the end of the overwriting data.
There are at least two software vendors that sell products that read past the end of data tape marks. I used one of them several years ago to recover data from a tape that was accidentally overwritten due to a system crash. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
