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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tape inspired crashes
Message-ID: <7534@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 17:26:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 17:26:48 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 17:26:48 EST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> We've had several crashes recently while trying commit unnatural
> acts with a tape drive.  The unnatural acts consist of trying to
> recover data past the logical end of tape (two eofs) and trying to
> recover data from tapes lacking any eof...
> Panic'ing due to a tape error seems a bug...

Such bugs are endemic in Unix tape drivers.  Very few of them react well
to really strange situations on the tape, although panicing is indeed a
bit extreme...
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