From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 04:12:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E2016A403 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 04:12:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC31243D45 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 04:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k374Cl4p081149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:12:47 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.3/8.12.11) id k374ClFh091665; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:12:47 +0700 (ICT) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:12:47 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200604070412.k374ClFh091665@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Subject: How to read a damaged tape X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:12:51 -0000 Hi, I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know I would end up at a random position in the middle of a file, but at least I could fast forward over the damaged file. Best regards, Olivier