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It's also possible to instruct the tape drive to write an EOT marker at the beginning of the tape, by rewinding and opening the tape for write, and write no data. This overwrites probably important metadata. I don't know which tape technology can be forced to read behind that EOT marker. The data is physically still on the tape but can't be accessed.
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