Jean suggests:

> How about tearring off the aluminum B.OT. marker.  I believe that withouth
> the B.O.T. it's pretty hard to differentiate each and every 1's and O's on a
> tape.  Furthermore, you may want to crimple the first few feet of tape pas
> the B.O.T.  What's your opinion on this?

Spare BOT/EOT markers are one of the few things we made sure we kept
track of when we started moving away from 9 track drives some years ago.

If you cut out the first few feet of a 9 track tape, the rest of the data
is still recoverable (with a little work).

If you cut out the first few feet of a DDS tape, the rest of the data
isn't recoverable without a lot of *very expensive* hard work.

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