I have some sequential access SCSI tape drives that are supported in Linux. I can access the devices and everything seems to work fine. My question is, is there a way to copy the tape without actually mounting the file system on the tape? When I do a dd on the device it just outputs the first 512 bytes, what looks like a tape header. How would I access the raw data beyond this point? Is there a utility that could do it for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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