Thanks again for the quick responses, and useful info. The answers were divided
into several discernable groups:
Answers came from:
Group 1: Retension tape.
tam2@bae.bellcore.com: Try mt -t /dev/rst0 retension (We had - no help)
Group 2: Tarx and it's earlier variants. This was the first approach I
tried, and it worked magnificently! Thanks to -
pomeranz@isis.dccs.upenn.edu: Get Henry Spencer's tarx program
fetrow@biostat.washington.edu:
arrent!angel@uu.psi.com:
Group 3: Use dd.
aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu:
tsacas@ilog.ilog.fr: Try dd to see if the tape exhibits a media error.
If so, probably out of luck. Try skipping with dd skip=XXXb.
bb@math.ufl.edu: Use dd with conv=noerror
brand@lll-winken.llnl.gov: Use dd with high blocksize
geertj@ica.philips.nl: Try dd if=/dev/nrst0 ibs=20b conv=noerr | tar xvf -
lpi!trr@uunet.UU.NET:
tgsmith@spdev.East.Sun.COM: dd if=/dev/tapedev of=foo conv=noerror
ensys!Energetic.COM!msm@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM: dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=xxxx ibs=yyyb
conv=noerror
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