14 Jun
2024
14 Jun
'24
1:51 p.m.
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
This is on an 11/34; I don't have a good q-bus tape controller yet or I'd
try it on uVAX with NetBSD or something less "exciting" :)
Anyone know of good programs to do this with only one tape drive? Don't
care which operating system.
Been looking through DECUS archives but have found nothing yet (manually
reading thru - 1/3 of the way done, maybe there's a better way to scan
these?).
thx
jake
14 Jun
14 Jun
2:07 p.m.
Haven't seen such a thing, but given a decent size disk, reading a tape and producing
the corresponding SIMH style *.tap file would be easy enough. On RSTS you could write it
in BASIC/PLUS (or FORTH :-) )
paul
On Jun 14, 2024, at 4:51 PM, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
This is on an 11/34; I don't have a good q-bus tape controller yet or I'd
try it on uVAX with NetBSD or something less "exciting" :)
Anyone know of good programs to do this with only one tape drive? Don't
care which operating system.
Been looking through DECUS archives but have found nothing yet (manually
reading thru - 1/3 of the way done, maybe there's a better way to scan
these?).
thx
jake
4:10 p.m.
On 6/14/24 15:51, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
This is on an 11/34; I don't have a good q-bus tape controller yet or I'd
try it on uVAX with NetBSD or something less "exciting" :)
Anyone know of good programs to do this with only one tape drive? Don't
care which operating system.
I used to do a lot of this sort of thing, I was the DECUS
librarian of our LUG for a while. I had some FORTRAN
programs that duped tapes if you had two drives, and I also
had programs that would dump a tape to a disk file, and then
write it back out. Fairly handy for making multiple copies
of the same tape.
It looks like this program came off a VMS system, but I
suspect it will likely compile on an RSX-11 system as that
is what it was derived from.
Let me know if you have issues with it.
Jon
4:40 p.m.
On 6/14/24 15:51, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
Here is a faster tape copy program that takes advantage of
drives that can stream. This is definitely a VAX/VMS program.
Jon
15 Jun
15 Jun
7:21 a.m.
Jon, thanks so much for the gift of code!
Unfortunately the list seems to have scrubbed away the attachments.
If they're short, could you pls paste them directly in a reply as text so
the programs are preserved in this thread for future?
(Presuming they're not too big and that's not a rules-bender here)
Alternatively you could email to me direct using my firstname.lastname at
gmail.
Fun side effect of this is that I now have to try and resurrect my eighties
11/34 RSX11-M install from my college days :) And maybe this will morph
into a VMX -> RSX ForTran porting convo!
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 19:40, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 6/14/24 15:51, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
Here is a faster tape copy program that takes advantage of
drives that can stream. This is definitely a VAX/VMS program.
Jon
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