[Info-vax] Respooling a TK50 Tape

Rich Alderson news at alderson.users.panix.com
Thu Feb 24 18:28:43 EST 2011


Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> writes:

> "Rob Jarratt" <nospam at nospam.no> writes:

>> Never mind, found it:

>> set magtape /skip=end_of_tape mua0:

> That will, of course, only skip to *logical* end-of-tape, not physical, but
> that's probably not an issue in this case.  Presumably you didn't introduce
> "bumps" into the portion of the cartridge that had not gone past the heads...

Oops, forogt that this is a cartridge, which will go to physical EOT several
times in getting to logical EOT.

Yeah, skip to EOT will (should?) retension your tape nicely.

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