15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
12:55 p.m.
On Thu, 2020-06-11 10:55:02 -0600, Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:18 AM Jan-Benedict Glaw
<jbglaw at lug-owl.de> wrote:
I'm not sure... But I guess it's quite pointless to attempt to work on
something like this without being able to test it with actual
hardware. :-(
Just for the fun of it, I just checked eBay for drives, but there's
nothing viable around right now. Maybe I'll come back to it at some
later time?
MfG, JBG
--
I don't have a TU58, but using nbdkit[1] or
BUSE[2] (which seems to
hook up as a NBD device as well) it should be quite easy to make it
avaliable as a block device. For reading and writing, this should be
pretty straight forward.
Yes, that could certainly be done, but it's a fair bit more work than just
writing a tape dump program.