I vaguely remember that you can see what's on the tape by rewinding, forward spacing x number of files and then using tar -t to see the contents. I also seem to remember that the number of files you have to forward space changed from PA-RISC to Itanium, but I'm not sure on that. I've tried fsf'ing from 1 through 16 and every time I get either a "directory checksum error" or a "Tar: tape blocksize error". What am I missing?
