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In the following cases it is necessary to change the labels by hand (how see next
section).
- One wants to overwrite a tape (e.g. in the case the run crashes after 10 events and
one has to restart from scratch).
- Multistreaming and one of the tape devices fails to open. The tape labels
are ONLY done in the multistreaming format if all the tapes are opened at the same time.
Therefore if only one of say four tape drives fails to open, one does not want to close
and reopen the other three one. Instead one can open the tape that failed the first time
individually and then adjust its label.
Online software development
Sun Apr 23 22:04:26 EDT 1995