Re: Data recovery from corrupted tapes

At 01:05 PM 12/27/2002, you wrote:
>I have lots of old tapes, but none with problems like this. Sometimes
>the drive rewinds the tape a bit and the goes on..
>The way the drive works, it's probably the firmware that does
>the rewinding(just a wild guess).
>So try to position the tape a couple of blocks further and try to extract
>the rest of the archive to disk or something.

But, if e.g. I type:

         cat /dev/zftape > data

Won't it automatically rewind to the beginning of the tape?
Is there a way to just dump bytes to a file, ignoring errors?

Cheers,
-Pete

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