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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Error Handling
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Date: 14 Mar 91 15:52:33 GMT
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In article <9103132005.AA20850@umix.cc.umich.edu>, SRFERGU%ERENJ@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Scott Ferguson) writes:

  Is there any way in high-level software (like in tar) to skip over bad blocks
  of tape? I'd prefer to lose only the portion of data that was written onto
  the bad tape segment, and save some of the data beyond.

"dd conv=noerror,sync" should do what you want.