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- From: lundeby@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bruce Lundeby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: multiple tape files on 9144
- Message-ID: <5570912@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:48:47 GMT
- References: <JEFF.92Nov12091641@dsndata.uucp>
- Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
- Lines: 31
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- >I have an application that needs to write multiple tape files to cs80
- >cartridge tapes on a 9144 tape drive.
- >
- >the tapes need to look like this:
- >
- >file
- >eof
- >file
- >eof
- >file
- >eof
- >...
- >
- >
- >Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this?
-
- No. The 9144 "tape" drive has an interface which makes it look like
- a disk drive. Think of the 9144/9145 drives as disk drives with
- really long seek/latency times. Given this, your question has
- become: "How do I make a disk look like: file, eof, file, eof ..."
- Sorry, wrong device type.
-
-
- >
- >It's easy to do on DAT. My application has to support both DAT
- >and cartridge tape drives...
-
- They're very different types of devices -- Good luck.
-
- Bruce Lundeby
- lundeby@fc.hp.com
-