10 Oct
2016
10 Oct
'16
4:51 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Ross
Sent: 10 October 2016 11:07
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Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Emulator
On Oct 10, 2016 10:06 PM, "Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
I am not sure, it looks there is some code in there for tape but its very minimal.
In addition there are no interfaces on the card to select the ".tap" file to be
used.
Dave
Folks,
I am "playing" with a small VAX and want to install software onto it,
some of which are in SIMH ".tap" format files. I was thinking it would
be nice
to
have a SCSI Tape emulator that worked a bit like
the USB floppy
emulators that are about.
So it would plug into the SCSI bus and allow ".TAP" (and other tape
formats)
stored on some kind of flash memory, say USB or
SD card perhaps, to be
read
by real hardware.
Does this sound usefull to any one? Any other thoughts on how this
could
be
achieved?
Dave Wade
G4UGM & EA7KAE
Would it not be a SMOP to get a SCSI2SD device to emulate a tape drive?
Mike