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Xref: sserve comp.unix.admin:14327 comp.unix.bsd:12772 Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!rlg-vic2.Stanford.EDU!pct From: pct@LEO.Stanford.EDU (Peter C. Tam) Subject: Magnetic Tape utilities for Tape files recovery Message-ID: <pct.7.751083326@LEO.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 9 Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Research Libraries Group, Inc. Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 02:15:26 GMT Lines: 9 Usually if something is wrong with the tape in "cp /dev/rst0 123", what you get is an "I/O file error" message after a long read operation (after 20 secs),looking like it already has read most of the content already! But yet it will not give any single byte that it reads to the user. Is there a utility that will take care of all this, and may be take a directory/catalog output of the number of records/files in the tape and so on??? Thanks for any INFO!