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- From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: does anyone have the "dd" source code or good mtio examples???
- Summary: tape drivers, qic-80/mountain (for linux or 386bsd)?
- Message-ID: <684@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 02:00:16 GMT
- References: <fish.714667687@news2.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug24.201022.21067@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
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- In article <1992Aug24.201022.21067@cis.ohio-state.edu>, fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
- >
- > I've written my own tape software using the mtio library, and it wasn't
- > hard at all. (Other than a few specific tape functions, you basically
- > use read() and write() anyway).
- >
- > The specific program I created writes Archive FasTape format QIC-24
- > cartridge tapes under UNIX; the resulting tapes may be read directly
- > by the Archive software on MSDOS machines. The capability to READ
- > Archive tapes will be implemented after finals. :)
-
- I have a question based on your experience with such things (or other
- people's experience in general). I'm coming from years of experience
- with MS-DOS, but am relatively new to unix. I'm considering switching
- over to either of 386bsd or Linux. I have a mountain filesafe tape
- backup unit. I can read/write qic-80 with it, although I'd prefer to
- use Mountain's proprietary TD-101 format as I can achieve more bytes
- on the tape - at least for internal stuff.
-
- From your experience, how _hard_ is it to write such driver software? I
- haven't the foggiest idea of how you go about it. If you can r/w QIC-24
- then can it be adaptable to QIC-80, or is it totally different?
-
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