[comp.sys.sun] Get past the EOF mark on an exabyte

klas@nada.kth.se (Klas Heggemann) (11/27/90)

I've managed accidently to overwrite a Exabyte tape which contained a tar
file with the beginning of another tar file. I interrupted the second
write, so most of the old data is still on the tape but I do not know how
to get passed the EOT mark that seems to be written after the second
interruped write. Both writes were done using "tar" piped to a "dd" on a
remote host. 

I've tried a couple of dd's on the raw device but it will not result in
anything else but the failure after the reading of the overwrite file.

The Exabyte host is a Sun 490, sunning SunOS 4.1. All commands used are
standard commmands.

Any suggestions or ideas sent by mail will be most appreciated.

Klas Heggemann <klas@nada.kth.se>
Royal Institute of Technology 
Dept of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science
Stockholm, Sweden