Dumping to an exabyte tape drive

[Kral]

In article <439 at cfa.HARVARD.EDU> wyatt at cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt,OIR) writes:
>
>I think you'd better concede the last 10% or so, as long as dump can't deal
>with EOT. And even if it could, I once had a nasty surprise when restore
>broke because a multi-volume dump (9-track in this case) did't start at the
>beginning of the tape. 
>

So the $64k question now is: why can't dump properly deal with end of tape?
It's not like it's a new technology or something.

Another (I suppose this one is only an $8k question): I'm not sure what you
mean about the multi volume set above?  How did dumps behavior cause the multi
volume dump to start not at BOT?

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