tape inspired crashes

[Henry Spencer]

> We've had several crashes recently while trying commit unnatural
> acts with a tape drive.  The unnatural acts consist of trying to
> recover data past the logical end of tape (two eofs) and trying to
> recover data from tapes lacking any eof...
> Panic'ing due to a tape error seems a bug...

Such bugs are endemic in Unix tape drivers.  Very few of them react well
to really strange situations on the tape, although panicing is indeed a
bit extreme...
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