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List:       bacula-users
Subject:    Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with IBM Labels
From:       Kern Sibbald <kern () sibbald ! com>
Date:       2017-05-06 15:12:13
Message-ID: 427af9dc-3ac8-194a-d8d4-a4a167b63fe0 () sibbald ! com
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Because on older tape drives (DDS, DLT, ...) one EOF means End of File; 
two consecutive EOF marks with nothing between means End of Data.

On all modern drives only one EOF is necessary.


On 05/06/2017 04:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> wrote:
>>
>> 3. Mount each tape one at a time, and with mt rewind the tape and write
>> two EOF marks.
> Why two EOF marks?
>


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